Earth Blue Marble Nasa

Nasa s black marble enables a wide range of applications for a broad spectrum of data users.

Earth blue marble nasa. Earth the blue marble. 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. To learn more about the development of nasa s imagery of the earth as a whole read the history of the blue marble.

There is one blue marble image for each month of the year 2004. 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. And scientist astronaut harrison h. Evans command module pilot.

The complete computer image file is 26 megabytes making it one of the most detailed earth images ever created by nasa. This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date. The images show how the surface would look to a human in space if our world had no clouds and no atmosphere. This translunar coast photograph extends from the mediterranean sea area to the antarctica south polar ice cap.

A blue marble image of the earth taken from the viirs instrument aboard nasa s most recently launched earth observing satellite suomi npp. 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. Published december 6 2012. It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica.

Next generation images show earth in true color. View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew astronaut eugene a. 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. The researchers chose to translate the digital data over land into a color scheme where heavy vegetation is green and sparse vegetation is yellow.

Night lights 2012 the black marble. Nasa s terra satellite collected these images. 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.

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. The npp satellite was renamed suomi npp on january 24 2012 to honor the late verner e. This composite image uses a number of swaths of the earth s surface taken on january 4 2012.