The spacecraft that captured these images is the second of four meteorological satellites, assembled by the Joint Polar Satellite System project.
NASA’s new space satellite, NOAA-21, launched last November, captured a stunning global image of Earth. Even the waters of the Caribbean Sea can be seen here. The Daily Mail writes about it.
It was noted that with the help of its main instrument called VIIRS, in early December last year, NOAA-21 began to take detailed pictures of our planet.
From them, scientists put together a complete picture of the processes taking place on Earth.
So NASA showed what the snow-capped Himalayas and the Tibetan plateau look like, the smog that hangs in the air in northern India, caused by the burning of crops, and the waters of the Caribbean Sea.
In addition, Cuba and the Bahamas are clearly visible.
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Recall that earlier there was a picture that only showed the Earth from a distance of 620 thousand kilometers.
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