Blue marble was initially created by nasa s goddard space flight center the night lights by noaa s.
Blue marble base map nasa.
Clicking near the edge of the picture moves the focus into the respective direction clicking on its center zooms in and back out thus switching between 4 and 0 5 gigapixel.
We never thought it would become an icon.
There is one blue marble image for each month of the year 2004.
Fewer people know that nasa also studies earth.
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.
Fire data is available for download or can be viewed through a map interface.
Nasa lance fire information for resource management system provides near real time active fire data from modis and viirs to meet the needs of firefighters scientists and users interested in monitoring fires.
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.
Blue marble we have since updated the base maps by increasing the resolution and for 2004 we made a series of monthly maps.
Using data from the moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer modis aboard nasa s terra satellite scientists and data visualizers stitched together a full year s worth of monthly observations of the land surface coastal oceans sea ice and clouds into.
The next generation blue marble everyone knows that nasa studies space.
Next generation images show earth in true color.
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.
This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date.
I certainly never thought that i would become mr.
This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date.
Display of a section of the 86400 43200 blue marble pictures that nasa derived from imagery taken in 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 386 square mile of our planet.
I was happy with it but had no idea how widespread it would become.
The images show how the surface would look to a human in space if our world had no clouds and no atmosphere.
That ball became the famous blue marble.
Night lights 2012 the black marble.
Next generation offers greater spatial detail of the surface and spans a longer data collection period than the original.
Published december 6 2012.
The original blue marble was a composite of four months of modis observations.
Nasa s terra satellite collected these images.
