Blue Marble Project Nasa

The original blue marble was a composite of four months of modis observations.

Blue marble project nasa.

Fewer people know that nasa also studies earth. Like the original the blue marble. View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew astronaut eugene a. Next generation is a mosaic of satellite data taken mostly from a nasa sensor called the moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer that flies board nasa s terra and aqua satellites.

This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date. The npp satellite was renamed suomi npp on january 24 2012 to honor the late verner e. This composite image uses a number of swaths of the earth s surface taken on january 4 2012. 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.

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. 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. Since the seventies earth observation satellites have recorded data of our atmosphere the oceans and the land surface to improve our understanding of the earth as a system. Evans command module pilot.

Schmitt lunar module pilot traveling toward the moon. It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica. A blue marble image of the earth taken from the viirs instrument aboard nasa s most recently launched earth observing satellite suomi npp. 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 square mile of our planet. 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. Published december 6 2012. The blue marble project.

Also like its predecessor the new blue marble is available free of charge to educators scientists museums businesses. And scientist astronaut harrison h. This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date. 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.

This translunar coast photograph extends from the mediterranean sea area to the antarctica south polar ice cap. Next generation offers greater spatial detail of the surface and spans a longer data collection period than the original. Nasa s blue marble project presents freely available photorealistic maps of our planet earth.