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The NASA Earth Observatory’s mis­sion is “to pro­vide a freely-accessible pub­li­ca­tion on the Inter­net where the pub­lic can obtain new satel­lite imagery and sci­en­tific infor­ma­tion about our home planet.”

Amongst the wealth of infor­ma­tion found on the NEO site, the Blue Mar­ble “is the most detailed true-color image of the entire Earth to date. Using a col­lec­tion of satellite-based obser­va­tions, sci­en­tists and visu­al­iz­ers stitched together months of obser­va­tions of the land sur­face, oceans, sea ice, and clouds into a seam­less, true-color mosaic of every square kilo­me­ter (.386 square mile) of our planet.”

Detail | View the Blue Mar­ble (in var­i­ous media formats)