NASA has made lots of fans in recent years thanks to their beautiful panoramic and extreme-resolution images of the little ball we all live on. Stitching together thousands of images seems like a percent automated process, but the reality is a mind-blowing combination of hand-implemented artistry.
The photos follow in the footsteps of NASA’s other great Earth images. The original Blue Marble — one of the most famous pictures of all time — was captured by the crew of Apollo 17 from a distance of 28,000 miles. Since 2002, the agency has stitched together up to 10,000 satellite images to produce other incredible detailed images. One of the most recent, from 2007, had a mind-boggling resolution of 86,400 pixels by 43,200 pixels.
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