New Blue Marble Earth
A new weather satellite has relayed its first images of earth back to scientists and the new collection which includes an updated version of the iconic blue marble image of earth is simply.
New blue marble earth. This blue marble version 2 0 add on overlays a beautiful image of the earth created by nasa called the blue marble next generation when viewing google earth from space. 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. This was the first time the apollo trajectory. 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.
When you get get closer. View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew astronaut eugene a. And scientist astronaut harrison h. 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.
Night lights 2012 the black marble. 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. This new earth imagery enhances the blue marble legacy by providing a detailed look at an entire year in the life of our planet.
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. Evans command module pilot. This new earth imagery enhances the blue marble legacy by providing a detailed look at an entire year in the life of our planet. Published december 6 2012.
Night lights imagery by noaa s earth observation group privacy policy. Schmitt lunar module pilot traveling toward the moon. This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date. 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.