Nasa Blue Marble
Published december 6 2012.
Nasa blue marble. Evans command module pilot. Blue marble was initially created by nasa s goddard space flight center the night lights by noaa s. This translunar coast photograph extends from the mediterranean sea area to the antarctica south polar ice cap. It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica.
And scientist astronaut harrison h. 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. 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. The images show how the surface would look to a human in space if our world had no clouds and no atmosphere.
Next generation images show earth in true color. Nasa s blue marble pictures of earth show each month of the year 2004 to illustrate changes in snow cover and vegetation. Next generation offers greater spatial detail of the surface and spans a longer data collection period than the original. The original blue marble was a composite of four months of modis observations.
Fifty years ago on april 22 1970 people around the world marked the first earth day. Nasa s terra satellite collected these images. 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. There is one blue marble image for each month of the year 2004.
This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date. This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date. Night lights 2012 the black marble. 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.
To learn more about the development of nasa s imagery of the earth as a whole read the history of the blue marble. Published oct 13 2005. 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.