That ball became the famous blue marble.
Blue marble night map.
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.
Here you can browse their maximum resolution of four pixels per km as well as a slightly coarser night lights map enhanced by town names and national borders.
The images show how the surface would look to a human in space if our world had no clouds and no atmosphere.
Nasa s blue marble pictures of earth show each month of the year 2004 to illustrate changes in snow cover and vegetation.
Next generation images show earth in true color.
It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica.
Night lights 2012 the black marble.
We never thought it would become an icon.
There is one blue marble image for each month of the year 2004.
Next generation offers greater spatial detail of the surface and spans a longer data collection period than the original.
Next generation offers greater spatial detail of the surface and spans a longer data collection period than the original.
Night lights imagery by noaa s earth observation group privacy policy.
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.
This was the first time the apollo trajectory.
June blue marble next generation w topography.
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.
Blue marble we have since updated the base maps by increasing the resolution and for 2004 we made a series of monthly maps.
I was happy with it but had no idea how widespread it would become.
I certainly never thought that i would become mr.
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.
Published december 6 2012.
Nasa s terra satellite collected these images.