NASA collected K of ego - portraits on Earth Daythis year to make a monolithic “ Global Selfie . ” Although the name have my skin crawl , the conclusion effect is corking . Of of course my favorite contributing photo are all fictional characters .
The case-by-case photos are blended with real satellite data from the same day , using image from theSuomi NPP polar orbiting orbiter .
For the full interactive zooming experience , take in the mosaic on Gigapan . It can be fun to blindly prowl around at eminent - zoom , but I ascertain it most interesting to turn on the snapshots scrollbar along the bottom . Once you spot something interesting , you may mouseover an individual portrayal to see it highlighted on the mosaic , or cluck to zoom .
I ’ve already get hold my favourite act : Jed , the irrepressibly pollyannaish explorer from theKerbal Space Program , is hanging out in the turbulent weewee of the Pacific .
Meanwhile , Elmo from Sesame Street is loitering in Europe , enjoying a fast caffe latte before rejoining in the alphabet games . Other fictional submission include Globey from Pee - Wee Herman ’s Playhouse , and Smokey Bear . Other distance programs also sneak in , with a PhoneSat high - ALT trial using the satellite as a backdrop for a photograph to be incorporated in a arial mosaic of the major planet ( how meta ! ) .
While over 50,000 images were tagged with # globalselfie on Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , Google+ and Flickr . , NASA had to wade through and curate images that were approachable and “ usable . ” ( The press release fails to specify if unserviceable images were disallowed for technical or aesthetic reason ; I have to assume with that many submissions , at least a few were utterly inappropriate for a family - well-disposed political science establishment . ) The 36,422 images include photographs of citizenry on every continent in 113 countries and neighborhood .
Jeb - point viaDoug Ellison . What ’s your favourite submitted photograph included in the mosaic ?
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