Blue Marble Night Map

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Blue marble night map.

Published december 6 2012. There is one blue marble image for each month of the year 2004. 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. I certainly never thought that i would become mr.

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. 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. Nasa s terra satellite collected these images. 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.

I was happy with it but had no idea how widespread it would become. It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica. Nasa s blue marble pictures of earth show each month of the year 2004 to illustrate changes in snow cover and vegetation. Blue marble was initially created by nasa s goddard space flight center the night lights by noaa s.

Next generation offers a year s worth of. This was the first time the apollo trajectory. 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. The images show how the surface would look to a human in space if our world had no clouds and no atmosphere.

Night lights 2012 the black marble. Next generation offers greater spatial detail of the surface and spans a longer data collection period than the original. Next generation images show earth in true color. Next generation offers greater spatial detail of the surface and spans a longer data collection period than the original.

Blue marble we have since updated the base maps by increasing the resolution and for 2004 we made a series of monthly maps. That ball became the famous blue marble.