# @nasa on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/lV9DgIIaBK
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11739360-nasa-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/4b28fe415f.jpg
- **Posted:** 2014-03-10T01:06:10.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

As seen on #Cosmos tonight: A 'Blue Marble' image of the Earth taken from the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA's most recently launched Earth-observing satellite - Suomi NPP. This composite image uses a number of swaths of the Earth's surface taken on January 4, 2012.

Suomi NPP is NASA's next Earth-observing research satellite. It is the first of a new generation of satellites that will observe many facets of our changing Earth.

Credit: NASA/NOAA/GSFC/Suomi NPP/VIIRS/Norman Kuring
#nasa #earth #earthpix #planetearth #homeplanet

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planetearth, cosmos, earth, nasa, homeplanet, earthpix

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