Blue Marble Next Generation Map Of The Continents

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.

Blue marble next generation map of the continents.

Next generation images show earth in true color. 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. June blue marble next generation w topography. Next generation image collection.

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. 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 was the first time the apollo trajectory. The 2012 picture attracted over 3 million viewers on flickr image hosting website.

Published december 6 2012. These are not the best known of the blue marble images probably because they are styled to look like traditional world maps for instance the mercator projection and not well blue marbles. Nasa s terra satellite collected these images. Another set of images called the blue marble next generation was released in 2005 enabling the inclusion of cloud free for each month of 2004.

This image of africa from march 2005 is just one of many views of our planet provided in the new blue marble. They even have europe in the centre. Next generation offers greater spatial detail of the surface and spans a longer data collection period than the original. It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica.

This data set shown on a globe is derived from monthly data collected in 2004. There is one blue marble image for each month of the year 2004. The next generation blue marble everyone knows that nasa studies space. Next generation offers greater spatial detail of the surface and spans a longer data collection period than the original.

The antarctica coverage snown is the landsat image mosaic of antarctica. Fewer people know that nasa also studies earth. The ocean color is derived from applying a depth shading to the bathymetry data. Next generation 2000 2005.

A composite image of the western hemisphere was released by nasa on january 25 2012 and was titled blue marble 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. The images show how the surface would look to a human in space if our world had no clouds and no atmosphere. 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.