Now THAT'S a panoramic photo: NASA satellite captures stunning 6,000-mile-long image of Earth in just 15 minutes
By Victoria Woollaston, Daily Mail, 20 May 2013.
By Victoria Woollaston, Daily Mail, 20 May 2013.
NASA has captured the world's largest panoramic photo at 6,000 miles long and 120 miles wide using a satellite orbiting 438 miles above the Earth. The swath is made up of 56 still images taken during the satellite's final orbit and stretches from northern Russia down to South Africa. NASA's Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) scanned the surface of the Earth during orbit in April and took just 15 minutes to take the shots…
Image of the globe showing the swath of land captured by NASA's Land Data Continuity Mission as it orbited the Earth at 17,000
miles per hour. The seamless swath is made up of 56 images travelling from northern Russia, over the Red Sea and down into
South Africa. The camera took just 15 minutes to shoot the panoramic image, which is 6,000 miles long and 120 miles wide.
miles per hour. The seamless swath is made up of 56 images travelling from northern Russia, over the Red Sea and down into
South Africa. The camera took just 15 minutes to shoot the panoramic image, which is 6,000 miles long and 120 miles wide.
Video: Landsat Data Continuity Mission: The Long Swath (Complete)
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