Next generation images show earth in true color.
Blue marble basemap imagery courtesy nasa.
The resolution holds up to about 1 2 000 000 so it s great for global and regional maps.
Ok so what is this basemap made of.
The images show how the surface would look to a human in space if our world had no clouds and no atmosphere.
This translunar coast photograph extends from the mediterranean sea area to the antarctica south polar ice cap.
Nasa s terra satellite collected these images.
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.
Clicking near the edge of the picture moves the focus into the respective direction clicking on its center zooms in and back out thus switching between 4 and 0 5 gigapixel.
View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew astronaut eugene a.
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 0 386 square mile of our planet.
A hallmark of a firefly map is the dark desaturated imagery basemap.
A blue marble image of the earth taken from the viirs instrument aboard nasa s most recently launched earth observing satellite suomi npp.
The shown section is 720 600 by default but can be resized using the and buttons at the top.
Display of a section of the 86400 43200 blue marble pictures that nasa derived from imagery taken in 2004.
The npp satellite was renamed suomi npp on january 24 2012 to honor the late verner e.
Evans command module pilot.
This composite image uses a number of swaths of the earth s surface taken on january 4 2012.
Schmitt lunar module pilot traveling toward the moon.
This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date.
Published december 6 2012.
The next generation blue marble everyone knows that nasa studies space.
Fewer people know that nasa also studies earth.
Night lights 2012 the black marble.
It is a set of cloud free image mosaics from nasa s blue marble.
In sharing these blue marble images nasa hopes the public will join with the agency in its continuing exploration of our world from the unique perspective of space.
To learn more about the development of nasa s imagery of the earth as a whole read the history of the blue marble.
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.
And scientist astronaut harrison h.
