Big Blue Marble Earth . ... To create it , researchers at Goddard Space Flight Center's Laboratory for Atmospheres combined data from a Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite ( GOES ), the Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor ( SeaWiFS ), and the Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellites ( POES ) with a USGS elevation model of Earth's topography . ... The lunar image was reconstructed from GOES data and artistically rescaled for this visualization . ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...