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by nix 5144 days ago
Title is wrong. NASA's Blue Marble is about 3.7 gigapixels.
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sp332 5144 days ago
Blue Marble is a compilation from several different instruments. The new "photograph" was taken with a single satellite all at once.
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mturmon 5144 days ago
The recently-released Blue Marble image was from several different overpasses (six to be exact) but only one instrument on one spacecraft.

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_21...

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