This translunar coast photograph extends from the mediterranean sea area to the antarctica south polar ice cap.
Blue marble space.
This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date.
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View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew astronaut eugene a.
Blue marble communications was founded in january 2017 with our focus on developing ultra high bandwidth communications equipment suitable for use in the up and coming global coverage satellite constellations.
I was happy with it but had no idea how widespread it would become.
Bmsis is an initiative of blue marble space a 501 c 3 public charity.
That ball became the famous blue marble.
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Published december 6 2012.
Schmitt lunar module pilot traveling toward the moon.
It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica.
Next generation offers greater spatial detail of the surface and spans a longer data collection period than the original.
My part was integrating the surface clouds and oceans to match people s expectations of how earth looks from space.
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 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.
Next generation offers a year s worth of.
I certainly never thought that i would become mr.
And scientist astronaut harrison h.
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 2012 the black marble.
Evans command module pilot.
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.