Updated ‘Blue Marble’ image of the Earth from space

From NASA:

A ‘Blue Marble’ image of the Earth taken from the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA’s most recently launched Earth-observing satellite – Suomi NPP. This composite image uses a number of swaths of the Earth’s surface taken on January 4, 2012.

The “Blue Marble” is one of NASA’s most famous images. There’s a whole Flickr set of NASA photos to check out.