# @nasa on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DES1lYXOon0
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/25764307-nasa-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/c6b4b7f1a0.jpg
- **Posted:** 2025-01-01T19:14:56.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

We're all on this rock together, starting a new orbit around the Sun. Here's to new opportunities, discoveries, and moments of joy in 2025!

Happy New Year from all of us at NASA 💫
 
Image description: A stunning, vibrant image of Earth as seen from space. This image focuses on North America, with its green fields and yellow-brown deserts partially covered beneath swirling white clouds. The bright blue of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans takes up most of this image, with the Arctic ice pack and South America just visible at the very top and bottom, respectively. This image, the most detailed true-color image of Earth to date when it was originally released in 2002, is based primarily on data from NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, or MODIS.

Credits: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center image by Reto Stöckli (land surface, shallow water, clouds). Enhancements by Robert Simmon (ocean color, compositing, 3D globes, animation). Data and technical support: MODIS Land Group; MODIS Science Data Support Team; MODIS Atmosphere Group; MODIS Ocean Group Additional data: USGS EROS Data Center (topography); USGS Terrestrial Remote Sensing Flagstaff Field Center (Antarctica); Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (city lights).

#NASA #Space #Earth #BlueMarble #Inspiration #HappyNewYear

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earth, nasa, space, bluemarble, happynewyear, inspiration

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