NASA Unveils Panoramic View of Earth Over 9,000 Kilometers

NASA has just released a gigantic panorama of our planet assembled from 56 photographs taken at 705 kilometers above sea level. The mosaic covers an area over 9, 000 kilometers long by 185 wide, and was created thanks to images obtained by a satellite from the space agency. You can see in the video below what was the territory overflowed by the equipment:

As you can see from the clip above, given that 70% of the earth's surface is covered by water, the area overflown by the satellite goes from Russia to South Africa, thus preventing the panorama from simply showing a long blue stripe. In addition to video, you can also explore the high-resolution image through the GigaPan website or visit NASA's page to check out all the photos that make up the mosaic.

Interestingly, the equipment is capable of orbiting 27, 000 kilometers per hour, which means that it took about 20 minutes to capture the photos. So, unlike most of the satellite images we see out there - including those from Google Earth -, the panning is not done with figures recorded over time, but shows what is happening during a set interval in a huge area of ​​our planet.