'Global Selfie' Mosaic of Earth Day Released by NASA [VIDEO]

NASA has created a 'Global Selfie' mosaic of thousands of selfies submitted by people who participated in the Earth Day contest.

On the eve of the 44^th anniversary of Earth Day, the U.S. space agency NASA initiated a global celebration last month in which it invited people around the globe to take a global selfie. This way the space agency ensured that earthlings stepped out and celebrated environmental awareness.

The participants had to take a #globalselfie- an individual photo of the person with the local environment in the background. This picture had to be posted on social media sites using hashtag #globalselfie.

The response NASA received was amazing. There were selfies posted from every continent and 113 countries and regions right from Antarctica to Yemen, Greenland to Guatemala and Pakistan to Peru. Out of over 50,000 images tagged #globalSelfie ,NASA used over 34,000 individual photos and created a mosaic.

The newly released global mosaic is a zoomable 3.2 gigapixel image that can be easily scanned and explored by the users to check their individual photos. NASA invested several weeks in collecting and curating the submitted images before making the global mosaic.

"With the Global Selfie, NASA used crowd-sourced digital imagery to illustrate a different aspect of Earth than has been measured from satellites for decades: a mosaic of faces from around the globe," said Peg Luce, deputy director of the Earth Science Division in the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters, Washington. "We were overwhelmed to see people participate from so many countries. We're very grateful that people took the time to celebrate our home planet together, and we look forward to everyone doing their part to be good stewards of our precious Earth."

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