NASA's global selfie mosaics thousands of photos from around the world

NASA’s global selfie mosaics thousands of photos from around the world
all images courtesy of NASA 

NASA has comprised a global selfie of the world, built using 36,422 individual photos from people across the world. on this year’s earth day, they asked people to post on social media and tag #globalselfie, with the goal of using each picture as a pixel in the creation of a mosaic image that would look like earth appeared from space on earth day. assembled after weeks of curating more than 50,000 submissions, NASA has revealed the finished product, comprising images from antarctica to yemen, greenland to guatemala, micronesia to the maldives, pakistan, and poland. the zoomable 3.2-gigapixel photo can be scanned and explored, to take a closer look at the vast selection of selfies.

zooming in, the pictures become more clear

the image of the globe is made up of hundreds of thousands of selfies

individual photos from all over the world are shared in the picture