Blue Marble 2012 Nasa Earth Picture

On january 25 2012 nasa released a composite image of the western hemisphere of earth titled blue marble 2012 the picture logged over 3 1 million views on the flickr image hosting website within the first week of release.

Blue marble 2012 nasa earth picture.

And scientist astronaut harrison h. Flickr the new image is a composite of six separate orbits taken on jan. Nasa noaa view the original here. Responding to public demand nasa scientists created a companion image to the wildly popular blue marble released last week january 25 2012.

Evans command module pilot. Schmitt lunar module pilot traveling toward the moon. January 25 2012 updated february 2 2012. 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 npp satellite was renamed suomi npp on january 24 2012 to honor the late verner e. Fewer people know that nasa also studies earth. The next generation blue marble everyone knows that nasa studies space. View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew astronaut eugene a.

Published december 6 2012. 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. This blue marble earth montage shown above created from photographs taken by the visible infrared imager radiometer suite viirs instrument on board the new suomi npp satellite shows many stunning details of our home planet. This translunar coast photograph extends from the mediterranean sea area to the antarctica south polar ice cap.

Behold one of the more detailed images of the earth yet created. According to flickr the western hemisphere blue marble 2012 image has rocketed up to over 3 1 million views making it one of the all time most viewed images on the site after only one week a blue marble image of the earth taken from the viirs instrument aboard nasa s most recently launched earth observing satellite suomi npp. 23 2012 by the suomi national polar orbiting partnership satellite. Night lights 2012 the black marble.

This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date. A blue marble image of the earth taken from the viirs instrument aboard nasa s most recently launched earth observing satellite suomi npp.