Blue Marble Night Lights

It twinkles with lights from humans and nature.

Blue marble night lights.

Blue marble was initially created by nasa s goddard space flight center the night lights by noaa s national geophysical data center. Night lights imagery by noaa s earth observation group privacy policy. I like to surf around night light designs lights because there are over 1 000 different screen pictures. Here you can browse their maximum resolution of four pixels per km as well as a slightly coarser night lights map enhanced by town names and national borders.

Black marble uses imagery from nasa s suomi satellite. Space night light blue marble glowing earth led night light my lights so delightful they re in both bathrooms and right here by my computer. Night lights 2012 the black marble published december 6 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. 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.

The blue marble is an incredibly detailed true color depiction of the earth and is shown on the daylight side of the earth in this dataset. Therefore nasa introduced black marble in 2012 which complements its blue marble release of data that has become very popular with scientists and the public. Night lights imagery by noaa s earth observation group privacy policy. In fact the earth is never really dark.

Out of the blue and into the black the night is nowhere near as dark as most of us think. This dataset shows the earth with daytime and nighttime views of the earth to demonstrate how only half of the earth is illumintated at one time. The black marble data provide resolution up to 500m giving a global perspective at night.