Blue Marble 2012 Nasa Earth Picture

Behold one of the more detailed images of the earth yet created.

Blue marble 2012 nasa earth picture.

January 25 2012 updated february 2 2012. 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. Fewer people know that nasa also studies earth. On january 25 2012 nasa released a composite image of the western hemisphere of earth titled blue marble 2012 the picture logged over 3 1 million views on the flickr image hosting website within the first week of release.

Flickr the new image is a composite of six separate orbits taken on jan. The next generation blue marble everyone knows that nasa studies space. Schmitt lunar module pilot traveling toward the moon. This composite image uses a number of swaths of the earth s surface taken on january 4 2012.

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. The npp satellite was renamed suomi npp on january 24 2012 to honor the late verner e. Published december 6 2012.

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. Nasa noaa view the original here. 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. Night lights 2012 the black marble.

Responding to public demand nasa scientists created a companion image to the wildly popular blue marble released last week january 25 2012. 23 2012 by the suomi national polar orbiting partnership satellite. This blue marble earth montage shown above created from photographs taken by the visible infrared imager radiometer suite viirs instrument on board the new suomi npp satellite shows many stunning details of our home planet. This translunar coast photograph extends from the mediterranean sea area to the antarctica south polar ice cap.

On february 2 2012 nasa released a companion to this new blue marble showing a composite image of the eastern hemisphere from data obtained on january 23 2012. A blue marble image of the earth taken from the viirs instrument aboard nasa s most recently launched earth observing satellite suomi npp.