10,000 miles from Earth in a single image - The Mundo.es

From Russia to South Africa. There is a nineteenth century colonial epic, but a satellite image covering almost 10,000 kilometers long , from central Russia to northern Africa. The Landsat Data Continuity Mission, a satellite of NASA that aims to monitor the Earth from space has reached its height, 705 kilometers, and scanning a strip 9,600 miles long and 185 wide . The images can be viewed on the website of the mission of the NASA Earth Observatory.

All in one uninterrupted image in which only a small fragment of the Red Sea breaks the ‘travel’ overland. Considering that about 70% of our planet is covered by water , get as broad a picture in which more than 90% of it is land is much more impressive.

The satellite Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM), or data continuity mission dedicated to monitoring Earth from space to resources to study the sustainability of humanity such as food, water and forests .

increasing population, which now exceeds 7,000 million people, makes this program even more necessary mission that not only monitors the impact of this growth in resources but also the changes produced climate .