Schmitt lunar module pilot traveling toward the moon.
Blue marble project nasa.
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.
Also like its predecessor the new blue marble is available free of charge to educators scientists museums businesses.
Published december 6 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.
Evans command module pilot.
Like the original the blue marble.
And scientist astronaut harrison h.
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.
It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica.
The npp satellite was renamed suomi npp on january 24 2012 to honor the late verner e.
View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew astronaut eugene a.
This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date.
Fewer people know that nasa also studies earth.
Nasa s blue marble project presents freely available photorealistic maps of our planet earth.
This translunar coast photograph extends from the mediterranean sea area to the antarctica south polar ice cap.
The original blue marble was a composite of four months of modis observations.
The blue marble project.
This was the first time the apollo trajectory.
The next generation blue marble everyone knows that nasa studies space.
To learn more about the development of nasa s imagery of the earth as a whole read the history of the blue 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.
Next generation offers greater spatial detail of the surface and spans a longer data collection period than the original.
This composite image uses a number of swaths of the earth s surface taken on january 4 2012.
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.
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 spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date.
