It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica.
Blue marble night map.
I was happy with it but had no idea how widespread it would become.
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.
There is one blue marble image for each month of the year 2004.
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.
Night lights imagery by noaa s earth observation group privacy policy.
Blue marble was initially created by nasa s goddard space flight center the night lights by noaa s.
Next generation offers greater spatial detail of the surface and spans a longer data collection period than the original.
June blue marble next generation w topography.
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.
We never thought it would become an icon.
Night lights 2012 the black marble.
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.
This was the first time the apollo trajectory.
Next generation images show earth in true color.
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 a year s worth of.
Nasa s blue marble pictures of earth show each month of the year 2004 to illustrate changes in snow cover and vegetation.
Blue marble we have since updated the base maps by increasing the resolution and for 2004 we made a series of monthly maps.
Next generation offers greater spatial detail of the surface and spans a longer data collection period than the original.
Nasa s terra satellite collected these images.
Published december 6 2012.
I certainly never thought that i would become mr.