Blue Marble Basemap Imagery Courtesy Nasa

Schmitt lunar module pilot traveling toward the moon.

Blue marble basemap imagery courtesy nasa.

Night lights 2012 the black marble. 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 0 386 square mile of our planet. 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. To learn more about the development of nasa s imagery of the earth as a whole read the history of the blue marble.

Evans command module pilot. A hallmark of a firefly map is the dark desaturated imagery basemap. There is one blue marble image for each month of the year 2004. The images show how the surface would look to a human in space if our world had no clouds and no atmosphere.

Display of a section of the 86400 43200 blue marble pictures that nasa derived from imagery taken in 2004. Fewer people know that nasa also studies earth. The npp satellite was renamed suomi npp on january 24 2012 to honor the late verner e. Next generation images show earth in true color.

In sharing these blue marble images nasa hopes the public will join with the agency in its continuing exploration of our world from the unique perspective of space. And scientist astronaut harrison h. View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew astronaut eugene a. It is a set of cloud free image mosaics from nasa s blue marble.

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. Published december 6 2012. 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. 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.

A blue marble image of the earth taken from the viirs instrument aboard nasa s most recently launched earth observing satellite suomi npp. Nasa s terra satellite collected these images. The resolution holds up to about 1 2 000 000 so it s great for global and regional maps. This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date.

The next generation blue marble everyone knows that nasa studies space. This composite image uses a number of swaths of the earth s surface taken on january 4 2012. This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date.