Nasa Blue Marble 2015
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.
Nasa blue marble 2015. 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. The original blue marble was a composite of four months of modis observations. A blue marble image of the earth taken from the viirs instrument aboard nasa s most recently launched earth observing satellite suomi npp. Published december 6 2012.
A hallmark of a firefly map is the dark desaturated imagery basemap. It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica. It is a set of cloud free image mosaics from nasa s blue marble. This blue marble is the first fully illuminated snapshot of the earth captured by the dscovr satellite a joint nasa noaa and u s.
After launching in february 2015 dscovr spent months rocketing away from earth before reaching its final orbit position in june 2015 at lagrange point 1 l1 about one million miles away from. The easiest fastest way i ve found to do this. To learn more about the development of nasa s imagery of the earth as a whole read the history of the blue marble. This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date.
This was the first time the apollo trajectory. This translunar coast photograph extends from the mediterranean sea area to the antarctica south polar ice cap. 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. The blue marble october 2015 satellites like suomi national polar orbiting partnership npp get a complete view of our planet each day which allows us to create beautiful images of earth like the one shown here.
Night lights 2012 the black marble. Next generation offers greater spatial detail of the surface and spans a longer data collection period than the original. This composite image uses a number of swaths of the earth s surface taken on january 4 2012. The nasa blue marble awards.
And scientist astronaut harrison h. The npp satellite was renamed suomi npp on january 24 2012 to honor the late verner e. Schmitt lunar module pilot traveling toward the moon. 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.