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.
Blue marble next generation map of the continents.
They even have europe in the centre.
There is one blue marble image for each month of the year 2004.
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.
These are not the best known of the blue marble images probably because they are styled to look like traditional world maps for instance the mercator projection and not well blue marbles.
The 2012 picture attracted over 3 million viewers on flickr image hosting website.
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 ocean color is derived from applying a depth shading to the bathymetry data.
Night lights 2012 the black marble.
The images show how the surface would look to a human in space if our world had no clouds and no atmosphere.
Next generation offers greater spatial detail of the surface and spans a longer data collection period than the original.
Next generation images show earth in true color.
A composite image of the western hemisphere was released by nasa on january 25 2012 and was titled blue marble 2012.
Next generation offers greater spatial detail of the surface and spans a longer data collection period than the original.
It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica.
Next generation image collection.
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.
In honor of the deployment of this earth observing system nasa is pleased to share the next generation of its series of stunning blue marble earth images.
The next generation blue marble everyone knows that nasa studies space.
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.
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.
Published december 6 2012.
This data set shown on a globe is derived from monthly data collected in 2004.
Next generation 2000 2005.
Fewer people know that nasa also studies earth.
Another set of images called the blue marble next generation was released in 2005 enabling the inclusion of cloud free for each month of 2004.
This was the first time the apollo trajectory.
June blue marble next generation w topography.
The blue marble next generation bmng data set provides a monthly global cloud free true color picture of the earth s landcover at a 500 meter spatial resolution.
