Blue Marble Nasa Images Of Earth

A blue marble image of the earth taken from the viirs instrument aboard nasa s most recently launched earth observing satellite suomi npp.

Blue marble nasa images of earth.

At the time of publication it represented the best available science. Published december 6 2012. Nasa has released several similar images of earth since then but they. Recalling the famous apollo era pictures of earth taken by lunar astronauts this digital image is a spectacular portrait of the western hemisphere at the time of one of the strongest hurricanes ever observed in the eastern pacific.

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. View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew astronaut eugene a. This page contains archived content and is no longer being updated.

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. Night lights 2012 the black marble. Earth 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.

Blue marble image of the earth from apollo 17. And scientist astronaut harrison h. On monday nasa released a photo of the entire sunlit side of earth the first since the original blue marble photo in 1972. Evans command module pilot.