Blue Marble 2012

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.

Blue marble 2012.

Night lights 2012 the black 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. Published december 6 2012. This composite image uses a number of swaths of the earth s surface taken on january 4 2012.

The npp satellite was renamed suomi npp on january 24 2012 to honor the late verner e. It shows even faint lights rather brightly and is thus well suited to spot even villages. Suomi of the university of wisconsin. The two way the space agency s latest composite image of earth offers a detailed view of north and central america.

A new high definition version of the blue marble has been taken from the newest earth observation satellite. A blue marble image of the earth taken from the viirs instrument aboard nasa s most recently launched earth observing satellite suomi npp. This image really has the ability to suck you in make you think about yourself make you think about everything inside that marble permanently stick into your mind and make you smile. The just renamed suomi npp satellite took numerous images on january 4 2012 and.

This was the first time the apollo trajectory. This image was released to the public on january 25 2012. Map of 2012 beautified using combined data from many satellite pictures taken in april and october 2012 nasa published a beautified map in which the night lights were shown in yellow on a blue ified version of the day time blue marble 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.

A blue marble image of the earth taken from the viirs instrument aboard nasa s earth observing satellite suomi npp. This composite image uses a number of swaths of the earth s surface taken on january 4 2012. The most amazing high definition image of earth blue marble 2012 nasa if nasa says it s the best image ever of earth i m guessing that it is. Washed by seas of unsullied shades of blue and caressed by snowy clouds gaia gleams in pristine splendor.

It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica. Blue marble 2012 how serene the earth looks from the heavens.