Nasa Black Marble Project
Nasa s black marble enables a wide range of applications for a broad spectrum of data users.
Nasa black marble project. This was the first time the apollo trajectory. The night side of our planet twinkles with light and the first thing to stand out is the cities. Norway and continuously to local direct broadcast users around the world. They have provided a broad beautiful picture showing how humans have shaped the planet and lit up the darkness.
Nothing tells us more about the spread of humans across the earth than city lights asserts chris elvidge a noaa scientist who has studied them for 20 years. Along with their primary purpose of supporting the short term weather prediction and disaster response communities they also provide new data for tracking wildfires gas flares and light pollution and have numerous socioeconomic uses such as proxying economic activity monitoring changes in. The mission is managed by nasa with operational support from noaa and its joint polar satellite system which manages the satellite s ground system. Eos project science office at.
By removing natural and stray light sources researchers have provided a clearer picture of the human footprint on earth and opened up new opportunities in disaster response demographics and applied research. The blue marble is an image of earth taken on december 7 1972 from a distance of about 29 000 kilometers 18 000 miles from the planet s surface. Night lights 2012 the black marble. Full 360 animated rotation in high definition resolution 1920x1080 1080p mov 49 3 mb.
It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica. It was taken by the crew of the apollo 17 spacecraft on its way to the moon and is one of the most reproduced images in history.