The resolution holds up to about 1 2 000 000 so it s great for global and regional maps.
Blue marble basemap imagery courtesy nasa.
It is a set of cloud free image mosaics from nasa s blue marble.
Fewer people know that nasa also studies earth.
Evans command module pilot.
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Ok so what is this basemap made of.
Nasa s terra satellite collected these images.
This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date.
A hallmark of a firefly map is the dark desaturated imagery basemap.
Night lights 2012 the black marble.
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.
Schmitt lunar module pilot traveling toward the moon.
View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew astronaut eugene a.
The next generation blue marble everyone knows that nasa studies space.
And scientist astronaut harrison h.
This translunar coast photograph extends from the mediterranean sea area to the antarctica south polar ice cap.
In sharing these blue marble images nasa hopes the public will join with the agency in its continuing exploration of our world from the unique perspective of space.
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.
Next generation images show earth in true color.
The npp satellite was renamed suomi npp on january 24 2012 to honor the late verner e.
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 images show how the surface would look to a human in space if our world had no clouds and no atmosphere.
Published december 6 2012.
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.
To learn more about the development of nasa s imagery of the earth as a whole read the history of the blue marble.
There is one blue marble image for each month of the year 2004.
A blue marble image of the earth taken from the viirs instrument aboard nasa s most recently launched earth observing satellite suomi npp.
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 0 386 square mile of our planet.
