Panorama at 9600 km in 15 minutes

The view of the Earth from space, which can be observed on Google Earth or other similar services, is obtained by assembling images taken by different devices at different times. In contrast, NASA published a “snapshot” of the earth’s surface - a truly huge panorama taken by the satellite of the Landsat Data Continuity Mission from a height of 705 km in 15 minutes: the length of the panorama was over 9000 km, width - 185 km. As a result, everyone can observe the panorama with a resolution of 19 GP, which stretches from the western part of Russia to South Africa. In NASA, the project has the code name “The Long Swath” and there it’s reasonable to note that only the astronauts and not all that could see this — the view of the Earth for a limited period of time.

The full results of the project are presented on GigaPan , the kml file for Google Earth is also available.

In order to simply get acquainted with what is being said, below are separate images:
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A more complete and effective presentation can be obtained from the video — a little less than four minutes:



And finally, if someone wants to follow all 15 minutes of shooting, then it can be done here .

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