Blue Marble 2001

Since the 1960s astronauts and satellites have been sending us beautiful portraits of our home planet.

Blue marble 2001.

The blue marble was not the first clear image taken of an illuminated face of earth since similar shots from the ats 3 satellite had already been made as early as 1967. This composite image uses a number of swaths of the earth s surface taken on january 4 2012. Cd album limited edition stereo country. Dreamsville records archive ydcd 0045 together records 2 ydcd 0045 format.

This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date. A blue marble image of the earth taken from the viirs instrument aboard nasa s most recently launched earth observing satellite suomi npp. For one you need to be far enough away to get a full view of the planet s. Sonic past music poptones ltd 2001 issued under licence from sonic past music.

This image shows the americas in twelve monthly panels with january 2004 in the upper left corner and december 2004 in the lower right corner. Photographing earth as a whole is a bit daunting. Our robotic explorer cassini regards the shadow draped face of saturn. The npp satellite was renamed suomi npp on january 24 2012 to honor the late verner e.

Fortunately nasa has that covered. Twelve month panels from the blue marble. This view looks toward the unilluminated side of the rings from about 14 degrees above the ringplane. This spectacular moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer modis blue marble image is based on the most detailed collection of true color imagery of the entire earth to date.

The apollo 17 image however released during a surge in environmental activism during the 1970s became a symbol of the environmental movement as a depiction of earth s. Sagittarius 2 the blue marble label.