Earth Blue Marble Nasa

Next generation images show earth in true color.

Earth blue marble nasa.

Schmitt lunar module pilot traveling toward the moon. And scientist astronaut harrison h. View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew astronaut eugene a. A blue marble image of the earth taken from the viirs instrument aboard nasa s most recently launched earth observing satellite suomi npp.

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. The images show how the surface would look to a human in space if our world had no clouds and no atmosphere. 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.

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 mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica. The heights of mountains and depths of valleys have. Evans command module pilot.

The researchers chose to translate the digital data over land into a color scheme where heavy vegetation is green and sparse vegetation is yellow. The complete computer image file is 26 megabytes making it one of the most detailed earth images ever created by nasa. Night lights 2012 the black marble. This translunar coast photograph extends from the mediterranean sea area to the antarctica south polar ice cap.

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. Nasa s black marble enables a wide range of applications for a broad spectrum of data users. 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. 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 npp satellite was renamed suomi npp on january 24 2012 to honor the late verner e. Published december 6 2012. 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. Nasa s terra satellite collected these images.

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. 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.