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Title: [NSS]Beautiful New ?Blue Marble? Image
Post by: Feed Bot on January 29, 2012, 12:16:20 AM

Beautiful New ?Blue Marble? Image

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This striking “Blue Marble” image of the Earth was taken January 4th by NASA’s newest Earth-observing satellite, the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP). The satellite was named after the late Verner E. Suomi, a meteorologist at the University of Wisconsin  who [...]

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