A 'Blue Marble' image of the Earth taken from the VIIRS
instrument aboard NASA's most recently launched Earth-observing
satellite - Suomi NPP. (Image credit: NASA/NOAA/GSFC/Suomi
NPP/VIIRS/Norman Kuring) By Dr. Amber Jenkins, NASA Jet
Propulsion Laboratory Cross-posted from weather.com NASA
released the spectacular view of Earth below on January 25, 2012
from its newest Earth-observing satellite, "Suomi NPP." It is
the first of a new generation of satellites that will observe
many facets of our changing Earth. This composite image above
uses a number of swaths of the Earth's surface taken on January
4, 2012. NASA has renamed this newest Earth-observing satellite
in honor of the late Verner E. Suomi, a meteorologist at the
University of Wisconsin who is recognized widely as "the father
of satellite meteorology." A 'true-color' image of the Eastern
United States taken on January 19, 2012. This image was taken
between 5:57 pm USA EST and 6:04 pm USA EST. (Image credit:
NASA/Suomi NPP/Atmosphere PEATE/Univ. of Wi