Blue Marble 2012 - Arctic View Image Credit: NASA/GSFC/Suomi NPP Fifteen orbits of the recently launched Suomi NPP satellite provided the VIIRS instrument enough time (and longitude) to gather the pixels for this synthesized view of Earth showing the Arctic, Europe, and Asia.

Blue Marble 2012 - Arctic View

Image Credit: NASA/GSFC/Suomi NPP

Fifteen orbits of the recently launched Suomi NPP satellite provided the VIIRS instrument enough time (and longitude) to gather the pixels for this synthesized view of Earth showing the Arctic, Europe, and Asia.