NASA’S GLOBAL SELFIE MOSAIC
Image Credit & Copyright: NASA. CLICK image for larger view and look below for information and links.
Were you part of the NASA Earth Day outreach program on April 22 called the Global Selfie Day 2014? If so then there’s a great chance you are in this image! This image isn’t large enough to view individual photos but the interactive GigaPan ZOOM version is; Link is below!
Below is an excerpt from NASA’s official release website:
For Earth Day this year, NASA invited people around the world to step outside to take a “selfie” and share it with the world on social media. NASA released Thursday a new view of our home planet created entirely from those photos.
The “Global Selfie” mosaic was built using more than 36,000 individual photographs drawn from the more than 50,000 images tagged #GlobalSelfie and posted on or around Earth Day, April 22, on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Google+ and Flickr. The project was designed to encourage environmental awareness and recognize the agency’s ongoing work to protect our home planet.
Selfies were posted by people on every continent and 113 countries and regions, from Antarctica to Yemen, Greenland to Guatemala, and Pakistan to Peru. The resulting global mosaic is a zoomable 3.2-gigapixel image that users can scan and explore to look at individual photos. The Global Selfie was assembled after several weeks of collecting and curating the submitted images.
“With the Global Selfie, NASA used crowd-sourced digital imagery to illustrate a different aspect of Earth than has been measured from satellites for decades: a mosaic of faces from around the globe,” said Peg Luce, deputy director of the Earth Science Division in the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters, Washington. “We were overwhelmed to see people participate from so many countries. We’re very grateful that people took the time to celebrate our home planet together, and we look forward to everyone doing their part to be good stewards of our precious Earth.”
The GigaPan image of Earth is based on views of each hemisphere captured on Earth Day 2014 by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite instrument on the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite. Suomi NPP, a joint mission between NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, collects data on both long-term climate change and short-term weather conditions.
GigaPan ZOOM Mosaic of this image: http://www.gigapan.com/gigapans/155294
NASA’s official release of the Global Selfie mosaic: http://www.nasa.gov/press/2014/may/nasa-releases-earth-day-global-selfie-mosaic-of-our-home-planet/
NASA’s making of Global Selfie mosaic: http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/2014-globalselfie-wrap-up/
NASA JPL page on the release of the Global Selfie mosaic: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2014-161
NASA Earth Right Now: http://www.nasa.gov/earthrightnow/
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