Original Nasa Blue Marble

Night lights 2012 the black marble.

Original nasa blue marble. 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. Schmitt lunar module pilot traveling toward the moon. And scientist astronaut harrison h. With a 1 or 2 stretcher the blue marble will still have plenty of black space around it on the front of the.

The original nasa image has been corrected for colour and tone and extended to allow for mounting on standard stretchers. Evans command module pilot. It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica. 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. Published december 6 2012. This was the first time the apollo trajectory. Next generation offers greater spatial detail of the surface and spans a longer data collection period than the original.

This translunar coast photograph extends from the mediterranean sea area to the antarctica south polar ice cap. The dimensions are the size of the canvas which for these square blue marble images is black to the edge. View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew astronaut eugene a. The original blue marble was a composite of four months of modis observations.

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. 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. This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date.