Marble Earth Nasa

This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date.

Marble earth nasa.

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. 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. Fifty years ago on april 22 1970 people around the world marked the first earth day.

This translunar coast photograph extends from the mediterranean sea area to the antarctica south polar ice cap. Fewer people know that nasa also studies earth. Published december 6 2012. 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.

In celebration of the deployment of its earth observing system nasa is pleased to share the newest in its series of stunning earth images affectionately named the blue marble this new earth imagery enhances the blue marble legacy by providing a detailed look at an entire year in the life of our planet. Night lights 2012 the black marble. This was the first time the apollo trajectory. Along with their primary purpose of supporting the short term weather prediction and disaster response communities they also provide new data for tracking wildfires gas flares and light pollution and have numerous socioeconomic uses such as proxying economic activity monitoring changes in.

Evans command module pilot. View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew traveling toward the moon. 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. Nasa s black marble enables a wide range of applications for a broad spectrum of data users.

This translunar coast photograph extends from the mediterranean sea area to the antarctica south polar ice cap. Schmitt lunar module pilot traveling toward the moon. The next generation blue marble everyone knows that nasa studies space. View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew astronaut eugene a.

This is the first time the apollo trajectory made it possible to photograph the south polar ice cap.