Blue Marble Project Nasa

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.

Blue marble project nasa.

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. The blue marble project. This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date. This translunar coast photograph extends from the mediterranean sea area to the antarctica south polar ice cap.

And scientist astronaut harrison h. This was the first time the apollo trajectory. View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew astronaut eugene a. To learn more about the development of nasa s imagery of the earth as a whole read the history of the blue marble.

The original blue marble was a composite of four months of modis observations. 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. Evans command module pilot. Next generation is a mosaic of satellite data taken mostly from a nasa sensor called the moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer that flies board nasa s terra and aqua satellites.

Schmitt lunar module pilot traveling toward the moon. This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date. Nasa s blue marble project presents freely available photorealistic maps of our planet earth. This composite image uses a number of swaths of the earth s surface taken on january 4 2012.

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. It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica. The npp satellite was renamed suomi npp on january 24 2012 to honor the late verner e. Next generation offers greater spatial detail of the surface and spans a longer data collection period than the original.

Fewer people know that nasa also studies earth. 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. A blue marble image of the earth taken from the viirs instrument aboard nasa s most recently launched earth observing satellite suomi npp. Night lights 2012 the black marble.

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. Also like its predecessor the new blue marble is available free of charge to educators scientists museums businesses. Like the original the blue marble.