“Science Friday” Documents the Making of the Blue Marble

“Science Friday,” a weekly science talk show broadcast live over public radio stations nationwide as part of National Public Radio's “Talk of the Nation” programming, has featured a mini-documentary on the making of the now-famous “Blue Marble” image of Earth. The NASA-created image was based on data captured by the Suomi-NPP satellite.

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According to Flickr, the online photo sharing site, "The western hemisphere Blue Marble 2012 image has rocketed up to over 3.1 million views making it one of the all time most viewed images on the site after only one week."

The “Blue Marble” image of the Earth was taken from the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA's most recently launched Earth-observing satellite - Suomi NPP. NASA renamed the NPP satellite “Suomi NPP” on 24 January 2012 to honor the late Verner E. Suomi of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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