NASA today released a spectacular, high-resolution “Blue Marble” image of Earth that was taken by a recently launched satellite.The photo was compiled from several images taken Jan. 4 by the Visible/Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite aboard the Earth-observation satellite Suomi NPP. The satellite was renamed Tuesday for the late Verner E. Suomi, a meteorologist at the University of Wisconsin. He was considered “the father of satellite meteorology.”
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