Blue Marble Nasa

Published december 6 2012.

Blue marble nasa.

The images show how the surface would look to a human in space if our world had no clouds and no atmosphere. Fewer people know that nasa also studies earth. To learn more about the development of nasa s imagery of the earth as a whole read the history of the blue marble. Fifty years ago on april 22 1970 people around the world marked the first earth day.

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. Larger image photo of robert simmon in front of the blue marble credit. The only reliable imagery of this was from nasa satellites. 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.

And scientist astronaut harrison h. Schmitt lunar module pilot traveling toward the moon. Evans command module pilot. The original blue marble was a composite of four months of modis observations.

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 basically confirmed the existence of a new island. 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. So if i am looking for something specific i know where to look.

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. 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. There is one blue marble image for each month of the year 2004. This was the first time the apollo trajectory.

View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew astronaut eugene a. This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date. It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica. The next generation blue marble everyone knows that nasa studies space.

Night lights 2012 the black marble. This translunar coast photograph extends from the mediterranean sea area to the antarctica south polar ice cap. Next generation images show earth in true color. For example recently there was a volcanic eruption in the red sea.