Earth at Night: NASA shows off ’big black marble’
Satellite takes 22 days and 312 orbits to capture the night
NASA has just released "Earth at night," an image that was 312 orbits and 22 days in the making. As the space agency explains, the data was gathered by the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Patnership satellite. Lean in and marvel:
NASA also used the date to create this animation:
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