NPP satellite is in the Polar orbit with an atitude of 512 miles but the new Eastern hemisphere called as Blue Marble is 7,918. Norman Kuring managed to get the big picture of six different orbits of the Suomi NPP satellite.The stellite will flew over the earth six times during eight period of times. But Norman took a picture than is combined into one image by using six sets of data.
On January 23,2012 a new image is taken with six separate sets of orbits by the NPP satellite.Both the images are taken by the VIIRS and NPP.By using and basketball asan example we can get a new idea about the NPP satellite from the earth.Let us see an example Take a basket ball that has an diameter of 10 inches that is of about 25 centimeters and you say that it is Earth. Earth has a diameter of about 7,926 miles .Get the exact same view of the earth as the VIIRS and NPP satellite that passes abroad. Hold the basket ball at the five eighth of an inch. FRom this we can find out the actual width of the earths surface covered byt he pass of the VIIRS satellite.
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