Blue Marble Base Map Nasa

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.

Blue marble base map nasa.

To learn more about the development of nasa s imagery of the earth as a whole read the history of the blue marble. Nasa s blue marble pictures of earth show each month of the year 2004 to illustrate changes in snow cover and vegetation. Night lights 2012 the black marble. 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.

Nasa s terra satellite collected these images. The shown section is 720 600 by default but can be resized using the and buttons at the top. This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date. Display of a section of the 86400 43200 blue marble pictures that nasa derived from imagery taken in 2004.

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I was happy with it but had no idea how widespread it would become. Nasa lance fire information for resource management system provides near real time active fire data from modis and viirs to meet the needs of firefighters scientists and users interested in monitoring fires. Clicking near the edge of the picture moves the focus into the respective direction clicking on its center zooms in and back out thus switching between 4 and 0 5 gigapixel. The next generation blue marble everyone knows that nasa studies space.

There is one blue marble image for each month of the year 2004. Blue marble we have since updated the base maps by increasing the resolution and for 2004 we made a series of monthly maps. The images show how the surface would look to a human in space if our world had no clouds and no atmosphere. That ball became the famous blue marble.

This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date. Next generation offers greater spatial detail of the surface and spans a longer data collection period than the original. Blue marble was initially created by nasa s goddard space flight center the night lights by noaa s. Fewer people know that nasa also studies earth.

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. 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.