The images show how the surface would look to a human in space if our world had no clouds and no atmosphere.
Blue marble next generation map of the continents.
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.
A composite image of the western hemisphere was released by nasa on january 25 2012 and was titled blue marble 2012.
The blue marble next generation bmng data set provides a monthly global cloud free true color picture of the earth s landcover at a 500 meter spatial resolution.
The original blue marble was a composite of four months of modis observations with a spatial resolution level of detail of 1 square kilometer per pixel.
Next generation offers greater spatial detail of the surface and spans a longer data collection period than the original.
This image of africa from march 2005 is just one of many views of our planet provided in the new blue marble.
Next generation offers greater spatial detail of the surface and spans a longer data collection period than the original.
Next generation 2000 2005.
Next generation images show earth in true color.
They even have europe in the centre.
There is one blue marble image for each month of the year 2004.
June blue marble next generation w topography.
Another set of images called the blue marble next generation was released in 2005 enabling the inclusion of cloud free for each month of 2004.
This was the first time the apollo trajectory.
The 2012 picture attracted over 3 million viewers on flickr image hosting website.
The original blue marble was a composite of four months of modis observations with a spatial resolution level of detail of 1 square kilometer per pixel.
The antarctica coverage snown is the landsat image mosaic of antarctica.
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.
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.
Next generation image collection.
The next generation blue marble everyone knows that nasa studies space.
Nasa s terra satellite collected these images.
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 mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica.
The ocean color is derived from applying a depth shading to the bathymetry data.
These are not the best known of the blue marble images probably because they are styled to look like traditional world maps for instance the mercator projection and not well blue marbles.
Published december 6 2012.
