Next generation images show earth in true color.
Blue marble night map.
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.
That ball became the famous blue marble.
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.
Blue marble was initially created by nasa s goddard space flight center the night lights by noaa s.
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.
I was happy with it but had no idea how widespread it would become.
Nasa s blue marble pictures of earth show each month of the year 2004 to illustrate changes in snow cover and vegetation.
June blue marble next generation w topography.
Nasa s terra satellite collected these images.
There is one blue marble image for each month of the year 2004.
Night lights 2012 the black marble.
We never thought it would become an icon.
This was the first time the apollo trajectory.
It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica.
The images show how the surface would look to a human in space if our world had no clouds and no atmosphere.
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.
Published december 6 2012.
Next generation offers a year s worth of.
Blue marble we have since updated the base maps by increasing the resolution and for 2004 we made a series of monthly maps.
Next generation offers greater spatial detail of the surface and spans a longer data collection period than the original.
Next generation offers greater spatial detail of the surface and spans a longer data collection period than the original.
Night lights imagery by noaa s earth observation group privacy policy.