Blue Marble Navigator Dark Skies Map

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Blue marble navigator dark skies map.

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. 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. This map is based on light pollution data updated in 2006 by david lorenz. Thank you to everyone who continued to visit despite the errors and thank you also to those who have submitted their favorite dark sites.

Blue marble was initially created by nasa s goddard space flight center the night lights by noaa s national geophysical data center. Here are some useful links. Welcome to the improved darksitefinder light pollution map. Nasa s next generation blue marble imagery available here is a set of 12 monthly composite images of the entire earth using 500 meter resolution imagery from the modis satellite the blue marble navigator offers a convenient interface to view this imagery along with several other useful options.

Night lights imagery by noaa s earth observation group privacy policy. And don t forget to c heck out the globe at night interactive light pollution map data created with eight years of data collected by citizen scientists. After selecting your initial location from a world map the main interface comes up. Next generation offers greater spatial detail of the surface and spans a longer data collection period than the original.

Night lights imagery by noaa s earth observation group privacy policy. More info on the features of this site. The map is easier to share since the url changes as you move around. The shown section is 720 600 by default but can be resized using the and buttons at the top.

I m still working out some of the bugs but i ll continue trying to find ways to improve the site. Nasa blue marble navigator. Next generation offers a year s worth of.