Published december 6 2012.
Blue marble night map.
Night lights 2012 the black marble.
Next generation offers greater spatial detail of the surface and spans a longer data collection period than the original.
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.
Night lights imagery by noaa s earth observation group privacy policy.
Nasa s terra satellite collected these images.
There is one blue marble image for each month of the year 2004.
Next generation offers a year s worth of.
That ball became the famous blue marble.
The images show how the surface would look to a human in space if our world had no clouds and no atmosphere.
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 images show earth in true color.
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.
June blue marble next generation w topography.
Next generation offers greater spatial detail of the surface and spans a longer data collection period than the original.
I certainly never thought that i would become mr.
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.
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.
Blue marble was initially created by nasa s goddard space flight center the night lights by noaa s.
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.
We never thought it would become an icon.
This was the first time the apollo trajectory.
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.