Earth Blue Marble Nasa

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Schmitt lunar module pilot traveling toward the moon. The heights of mountains and depths of valleys have. 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. This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date.

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. The researchers chose to translate the digital data over land into a color scheme where heavy vegetation is green and sparse vegetation is yellow. 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. There is one blue marble image for each month of the year 2004.

Published december 6 2012. The complete computer image file is 26 megabytes making it one of the most detailed earth images ever created by nasa. This translunar coast photograph extends from the mediterranean sea area to the antarctica south polar ice cap. This was the first time the apollo trajectory.

To learn more about the development of nasa s imagery of the earth as a whole read the history of the blue marble. Nasa s terra satellite collected these images. Night lights 2012 the black marble. Nasa s black marble enables a wide range of applications for a broad spectrum of data users.

And scientist astronaut harrison h. Earth the blue marble. Evans command module pilot. Along with their primary purpose of supporting the short term weather prediction and disaster response communities they also provide new data for tracking wildfires gas flares and light pollution and have numerous socioeconomic uses such as proxying economic activity monitoring changes in.

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. This composite image uses a number of swaths of the earth s surface taken on january 4 2012. It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica. 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.

The images show how the surface would look to a human in space if our world had no clouds and no atmosphere. Next generation images show earth in true color. A blue marble image of the earth taken from the viirs instrument aboard nasa s most recently launched earth observing satellite suomi npp.