Tuesday, May 21, 2013

NASA is the largest panoramic photo of the Earth - Daily News - Lisbon

NASA conducted the largest panoramic image of Planet Earth. This is about 9,000 km long and 185 km wide and was collected by the Landsat satellite. The image goes from Russia to South Africa

Landsat satellite captured a continuous image of the Earth of about 9.000km long. According to the NASA website, this includes the territory between northern Russia and South Africa The image presents with natural color that was captured, as well as clouds and fog. Furthermore shows various angles of sunlight.

See the interactive map with the composition of the images captured by NASA:

is a Landsat satellite data collection and monitoring of land resources from space to aid the study of human sustainability on Earth, such as food, water and forests.

The original article

NASA and high-resolution images can be seen HERE

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