[/caption] Unlike most satellite images of Earth, this one was not assembled from multiple swath scans or digitally projected onto a globe model — it’s the full disk of our planet in captured as a single, enormous 121 megapixel image, acquired by Russia’s Elektro-L weather-forecasting satellite. Like NASA’s GOES satellites, Elektro-L is parked in a geostationary orbit … Continue reading "From Russia With Love: A Singularly Stunning Image of Earth"