Blue Marble 2001

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 2001.

This image shows the americas in twelve monthly panels with january 2004 in the upper left corner and december 2004 in the lower right corner. The blue marble was not the first clear image taken of an illuminated face of earth since similar shots from the ats 3 satellite had already been made as early as 1967. Cd album limited edition stereo country. Photographing earth as a whole is a bit daunting.

Twelve month panels from 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. Fortunately nasa has that covered. Sonic past music poptones ltd 2001 issued under licence from sonic past music.

This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date. Our robotic explorer cassini regards the shadow draped face of saturn. For one you need to be far enough away to get a full view of the planet s. This spectacular moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer modis blue marble image is based on the most detailed collection of true color imagery of the entire earth to date.

This view looks toward the unilluminated side of the rings from about 14 degrees above the ringplane. Since the 1960s astronauts and satellites have been sending us beautiful portraits of our home planet. The npp satellite was renamed suomi npp on january 24 2012 to honor the late verner e. The apollo 17 image however released during a surge in environmental activism during the 1970s became a symbol of the environmental movement as a depiction of earth s.

The land and coastal ocean portions of these images are based on surface observations collected from june through september 2001 and combined or composited every eight days to compensate for clouds that might block the sensor s view of the surface on any single day. This composite image uses a number of swaths of the earth s surface taken on january 4 2012.