Nasa Blue Marble Imagery
The images show how the surface would look to a human in space if our world had no clouds and no atmosphere.
Nasa blue marble imagery. Here you can browse their maximum resolution of four pixels per km as well as a slightly coarser night lights map enhanced by town names and national borders. 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. Nasa is responsible for this dataset made from a compilation of satellite images throughout 2001. The next generation blue marble everyone knows that nasa studies space.
Schmitt lunar module pilot traveling toward the moon. Night lights 2012 the black marble. Fewer people know that nasa also studies earth. 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.
View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew astronaut eugene a. In sharing these blue marble images nasa hopes the public will join with the agency in its continuing exploration of our world from the unique perspective of space. Most of the information came from nasa s modis the moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer which is attached to the terra satellite 435 miles above earth. The blue marble is an incredibly detailed true color depiction of the earth.
This translunar coast photograph extends from the mediterranean sea area to the antarctica south polar ice cap. Nasa s blue marble pictures of earth show each month of the year 2004 to illustrate changes in snow cover and vegetation. Blue marble was initially created by nasa s goddard space flight center the night lights by noaa s. This was the first time the apollo trajectory.
This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date. 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. Nasa s terra satellite collected these images. There is one blue marble image for each month of the year 2004.
Next generation images show earth in true color. 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. 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. It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica.
Evans command module pilot. And scientist astronaut harrison h. Published december 6 2012.