Blue Marble Space

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Schmitt lunar module pilot traveling toward the moon. It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica. Next generation offers a year s worth of. And scientist astronaut harrison h.

Blue marble communications was founded in january 2017 with our focus on developing ultra high bandwidth communications equipment suitable for use in the up and coming global coverage satellite constellations. Published december 6 2012. I was happy with it but had no idea how widespread it would become. Bmsis is an initiative of blue marble space a 501 c 3 public charity.

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. 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 translunar coast photograph extends from the mediterranean sea area to the antarctica south polar ice cap.

Night lights 2012 the black marble. View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew astronaut eugene a. 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. 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.

My part was integrating the surface clouds and oceans to match people s expectations of how earth looks from space. Blue marble space 1001 4th ave suite 3201 seattle wa 98154 usa email. They do it at a small fraction of the price of currently available space hardware. In short blue marble communications s advanced.

I certainly never thought that i would become mr. 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 386 square mile of our planet. This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date.