NASA Releases Flip Side of High-Res Earth Image

New 'Blue Marble' image focuses on eastern hemisphere
By John Johnson,  Newser Staff
Posted Feb 4, 2012 9:51 AM CST
Blue Marble: The Other Side
This Blue Marble image focuses on the eastern hemisphere. NASA released it this week.   (Flickr)

NASA released its 2012 version of the "Blue Marble" image of earth from space last month, and it went viral in a hurry. What to do for an encore? Show the other side. The first image focused on the western hemisphere. Citing huge demand, NASA this week released a companion image that focuses on the eastern hemisphere. It's a composite image, and Wired has the particulars of how this new shot came to be. (More NASA stories.)

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