This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date.
Blue marble earth images.
Evans command module pilot.
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.
It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica.
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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.
Similar images of the earth have also been designated as blue marble images with the phrase blue marble frequently used by the environmentalists and organizations to promote environmental conservation and consciousness.
Next generation is a series of images that show the color of the earth s surface for each month of 2004 at very high resolution 500 meters pixel at a global scale.
This was the first time the apollo trajectory.
Published december 6 2012.
Schmitt lunar module pilot traveling toward the moon.
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Subsequent blue marble images.
Night lights 2012 the black marble.
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.
And scientist astronaut harrison h.
View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew astronaut eugene a.