Nasa Blue Marble Image
This composite image uses a number of swaths of the earth s surface taken on january 4 2012.
Nasa blue marble image. Night lights 2012 the black marble. The next generation blue marble everyone knows that nasa studies space. Fifty years ago on april 22 1970 people around the world marked the first earth day. Nasa image courtesy reto stöckli and robert simmon.
This translunar coast photograph extends from the mediterranean sea area to the antarctica south polar ice cap. And scientist astronaut harrison h. 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. Schmitt lunar module pilot traveling toward the moon.
Fewer people know that nasa also studies earth. This image shows south america from september 2004. 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 is a series of images that show the color of the earth s surface for each month of 2004 at very high resolution 500 meters pixel at a global scale.
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. This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date. 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. Evans command module pilot.
This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date. Using data from the moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer modis aboard nasa s terra satellite scientists and data visualizers stitched together a full year s worth of monthly observations of the land surface coastal oceans sea ice and clouds into. This was the first time the apollo trajectory. Published december 6 2012.
View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew astronaut eugene a. 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.