New Blue Marble 2015
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New blue marble 2015. This composite image uses a number of swaths of the earth s surface taken on january 4 2012. It was the first full photo of the earth taken on december 7 1972 by the american crew of the apollo 17 spacecraft. After launching in february 2015 dscovr spent months rocketing away from earth before reaching its final orbit position in june 2015 at lagrange point 1 l1 about one million miles away from. Multiple adjacent swaths of satellite data are pieced.
Next generation offers greater spatial detail of the surface and spans a longer data collection period than the original. 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. While it might seem simple it is actually a rather complex process. A blue marble image of the earth taken from the viirs instrument aboard nasa s most recently launched earth observing satellite suomi npp.
This blue marble is the first fully illuminated snapshot of the earth captured by the dscovr satellite a joint nasa noaa and u s. 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 view prompted president obama to tweet. Night lights imagery by noaa s earth observation group privacy policy.
The original blue marble was a composite of four months of modis observations with a spatial resolution level of detail of 1 square kilometer per pixel. The original blue marble is thought by many to be. The blue marble october 2015. It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica.
A beautiful reminder that we need to protect the only planet we have. The npp satellite was renamed suomi npp on january 24 2012 to honor the late verner e. Satellites like suomi national polar orbiting partnership npp get a complete view of our planet each day which allows us to create beautiful images of earth like the one shown here. Next generation offers a year s worth of.