Nasa Blue Marble 2013

The npp satellite was renamed suomi npp on january 24 2012 to honor the late verner e.

Nasa blue marble 2013. Night lights 2012 the black marble. This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date. Fifty years ago on april 22 1970 people around the world marked the first earth day. Published december 6 2012.

This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date. The nasa blue marble awards. On february 2 2012 nasa released a companion to this new blue marble showing a composite image of the eastern hemisphere from data obtained on january 23 2012. And scientist astronaut harrison h.

Schmitt lunar module pilot traveling toward the moon. Evans command module pilot. June blue marble next generation w topography. This animated globe shows the city lights of the world as they appeared to the new suomi npp satellite which has at least 10 times better light resolving power than previous night viewing satellites.

A blue marble image of the earth taken from the viirs instrument aboard nasa s most recently launched earth observing satellite suomi npp. Next generation offers greater spatial detail of the surface and spans a longer data collection period than the original. View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew astronaut eugene a. On january 25 2012 nasa released a composite image of the western hemisphere of earth titled blue marble 2012 the picture logged over 3 1 million views on the flickr image hosting website within the first week of release.

Using a collection of satellite based observations scientists and visualizers stitched together months of observations of the land surface oceans sea ice and clouds into a seamless true color mosaic of every square kilometer 386 square mile of our planet. This translunar coast photograph extends from the mediterranean sea area to the antarctica south polar ice cap. The original blue marble was a composite of four months of modis observations. Using a collection of satellite based observations scientists and visualizers stitched together months of observations of the land surface oceans sea ice and clouds into a seamless true color mosaic of every square kilometer 0 386 square mile of our planet.

To learn more about the development of nasa s imagery of the earth as a whole read the history of the blue marble.