World Map Blue Marble

Nasa s terra satellite collected these images.

World map blue marble.

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. 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. Subscribe to the blue marble monthly newsletter to stay up to date with inside information about upcoming product releases special offers training opportunities software tutorials and a chance to win a copy of global mapper each month. Fewer people know that nasa also studies earth.

Still i think my map adds something especially because of the color scheme for which i let myself be inspired by the famous blue marble maps by nasa. Nasa s blue marble pictures of earth show each month of the year 2004 to illustrate changes in snow cover and vegetation. Published december 6 2012. Of course my version is a little less blue and a little more green and especially more yellow red and brown.

Next generation images show earth in true color. 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. There is one blue marble image for each month of the year 2004.

It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica. This was the first time the apollo trajectory. Download gis software by blue marble geographics including global mapper geographic calculator and geographic tracker. Night lights 2012 the black marble.

Those show the earth as it looks from space. Next generation offers a year s worth of. 5 out of 5 stars 135 135 reviews 10 75. World map iphone 11 case blue marble iphone 11 pro max case iphone 8 plus case blue ocean iphone x case blue map iphone xr case xs max atlas yourbestofcase.

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. Using data from the moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer modis aboard nasa s terra satellite scientists and data visualizers stitched together a full year s worth of monthly observations of the land surface coastal oceans sea ice and clouds into. Next generation offers greater spatial detail of the surface and spans a longer data collection period than the original. The next generation blue marble everyone knows that nasa studies space.