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Highest resolution image ever shot of Earth

Posted by / May 10, 2012

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While a beautiful and instantly recognizable photograph, NASA’s Blue Marble shot is actually many different shots pieced together. A new photograph goes where Earth snapshots have not gone before with the highest resolution single photograph ever taken of our home planet.

Neither NASA nor the European Space Agency can take credit for the beautiful image; nope, props go to Russian weather satellite Electro-L.

Full story at Gizmodo.

An exploration of space.

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  • Anonymous

    Nice shot. Such a beautiful world were living at.