Blue Marble Night Map

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.

Blue marble night map.

Nasa s terra satellite collected these images. Blue marble was initially created by nasa s goddard space flight center the night lights by noaa s. I was happy with it but had no idea how widespread it would become. The images show how the surface would look to a human in space if our world had no clouds and no atmosphere.

I certainly never thought that i would become mr. It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica. Here you can browse their maximum resolution of four pixels per km as well as a slightly coarser night lights map enhanced by town names and national borders. The original blue marble was a composite of four months of modis observations with a spatial resolution level of detail of 1 square kilometer per pixel.

This was the first time the apollo trajectory. The original blue marble was a composite of four months of modis observations with a spatial resolution level of detail of 1 square kilometer per pixel. Next generation images show earth in true color. 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. Night lights 2012 the black marble. That ball became the famous blue marble. Next generation offers greater spatial detail of the surface and spans a longer data collection period than the original.

Blue marble we have since updated the base maps by increasing the resolution and for 2004 we made a series of monthly maps. 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. Night lights imagery by noaa s earth observation group privacy policy. Nasa s blue marble pictures of earth show each month of the year 2004 to illustrate changes in snow cover and vegetation.

There is one blue marble image for each month of the year 2004. Next generation offers greater spatial detail of the surface and spans a longer data collection period than the original.