Whole Earth Composite satellite image of Earth centred on the Americas This is Blue Marble one of the most detailed Earth images ever made It was done to update the original blue marble images taken by Apollo astronauts It is the result of the combination of data from three Earthobserving satellites A GOES satellite took the overall Earth image SeaWiFS gathered ocean colour data and the AVHRR instruments on POES satellites mapped the vegetation Hurricane Linda a huge spiral storm system is at centre left Relief features have been exaggerated by times The Moon upper left has been superimposed on the image and is not to scale
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