Nasa Blue Marble Interview

We basically confirmed the existence of a new island.

Nasa blue marble interview. The only reliable imagery of this was from nasa satellites. To learn more about the development of nasa s imagery of the earth as a whole read the history of the blue marble. Larger image photo of robert simmon in front of the blue marble credit. The original blue marble was a composite of four months of modis observations.

For example recently there was a volcanic eruption in the red sea. Published december 6 2012. Schmitt lunar module pilot traveling toward the moon. This translunar coast photograph extends from the mediterranean sea area to the antarctica south polar ice cap.

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 spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date. 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. Evans command module pilot.

Night lights 2012 the black marble. Fewer people know that nasa also studies earth. This composite image uses a number of swaths of the earth s surface taken on january 4 2012. 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.

The npp satellite was renamed suomi npp on january 24 2012 to honor the late verner e. I m not sure. View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew astronaut eugene a. Or it may have been nothing.

Next generation offers greater spatial detail of the surface and spans a longer data collection period than the original. So if i am looking for something specific i know where to look. The next generation blue marble everyone knows that nasa studies space. Nasa s robert simmon say that the earth looks kinda flat this may have been a slip up and part of the reason why this audio is so difficult to find.