The Greatest Picture of Earth Ever Taken.

Unlike the normal pictures of our planet we see from NASA, the picture below is believed to be the highest resolution image of our planet ever to be taken.

The ultra-crisp, 121 megapixel photo of earth was snapped from a Russian satellite floating 22,369 miles above the Indian Ocean.

Two major differences between this photo and the ones we commonly see which are taken by NASA abound.

The first is that's a single snapshot. Most images from space are actually composites of several smaller photos.

 The second difference, and a pretty obvious one, is that there appears to be a lot of rust in places where there used to be forests and vegetation. That's not an accident. The weather satellite's image was produced by introducing an infrared wavelength, which provides new levels of detail and has the effect of turning those typically lush green patches of the planet into shades of orange or brown.