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nix
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Title is wrong. NASA's Blue Marble is about 3.7 gigapixels.
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sp332
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Blue Marble is a compilation from several different instruments. The new "photograph" was taken with a single satellite all at once.
mturmon
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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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