Blue Marble 2012 Nasa Earth Picture

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.

Blue marble 2012 nasa earth picture.

And scientist astronaut harrison h. Responding to public demand nasa scientists created a companion image to the wildly popular blue marble released last week january 25 2012. Night lights 2012 the black marble. On february 2 2012 nasa released a companion to this new blue marble showing a composite image of the eastern hemisphere from data obtained on january 23 2012.

The next generation blue marble everyone knows that nasa studies space. This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date. 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. On january 25 2012 nasa released a composite image of the western hemisphere of earth titled blue marble 2012 the picture logged over 3 1 million views on the flickr image hosting website within the first week of release.

Published december 6 2012. 23 2012 by the suomi national polar orbiting partnership satellite. This blue marble earth montage shown above created from photographs taken by the visible infrared imager radiometer suite viirs instrument on board the new suomi npp satellite shows many stunning details of our home planet. Schmitt lunar module pilot traveling toward the moon.

Flickr the new image is a composite of six separate orbits taken on jan. 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. This translunar coast photograph extends from the mediterranean sea area to the antarctica south polar ice cap. The npp satellite was renamed suomi npp on january 24 2012 to honor the late verner e.

Behold one of the more detailed images of the earth yet created. According to flickr the western hemisphere blue marble 2012 image has rocketed up to over 3 1 million views making it one of the all time most viewed images on the site after only one week a blue marble image of the earth taken from the viirs instrument aboard nasa s most recently launched earth observing satellite suomi npp. January 25 2012 updated february 2 2012. A blue marble image of the earth taken from the viirs instrument aboard nasa s most recently launched earth observing satellite suomi npp.

Fewer people know that nasa also studies earth. Evans command module pilot.