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First Global Image from VIIRS

Looking down from 512 miles, the newly launched NPP satellite offers up its first gap-free view of Earth.


Image by NASA’s NPP Land Product Evaluation and Testing Element. Caption by Holli Riebeek.

Published December 16, 2011
Data acquired November 24, 2011

Source:
Suomi NPP > VIIRS