Nasa Blue Marble Projection
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Nasa blue marble projection. This was the first time the apollo trajectory made it possible to photograph the south polar ice cap despite the southern hemisphere being heavily covered in clouds. 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. The 2002 blue marble featured land surfaces clouds topography and city lights at a maximum resolution of 1 kilometer per pixel. Using data from nasa s terra satellite scientists and data visualizers stitched together four months of observations of the land surface coastal oceans sea ice and clouds into a seamless photo like mosaic of every square kilometer 386 square mile of our planet.
It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica. In 2002 nasa produced the blue marble the most detailed true color image of the earth s surface ever produced. The blue marble this spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date. Nasa image by robert simmon and reto stöckli high resolution images.
The blue marble is an image of earth taken on december 7 1972 from a distance of about 29 000 kilometers from the planet s surface.