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.
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Night lights 2012 the black marble.
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.
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.
View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew astronaut eugene a.
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 with a spatial resolution level of detail of 1 square kilometer per pixel.
We never thought it would become an icon.
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.
This was the first time the apollo trajectory.
Published december 6 2012.
This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date.
Evans command module pilot.
That ball became the famous blue marble.
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I certainly never thought that i would become mr.
Next generation offers a year s worth of.
Schmitt lunar module pilot traveling toward the moon.
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.
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Bmsis is an initiative of blue marble space a 501 c 3 public charity.
I was happy with it but had no idea how widespread it would become.