A blue marble image of the earth taken from the viirs instrument aboard nasa s most recently launched earth observing satellite suomi npp.
Blue marble nasa images of earth.
To learn more about the development of nasa s imagery of the earth as a whole read the history of the blue marble.
This composite image uses a number of swaths of the earth s surface taken on january 4 2012.
This was the first time the apollo trajectory.
The npp satellite was renamed suomi npp on january 24 2012 to honor the late verner e.
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.
This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date.
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.
Earth the blue marble.
Schmitt lunar module pilot traveling toward the moon.
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.
It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica.
View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew astronaut eugene a.
And scientist astronaut harrison h.
Evans command module pilot.