In celebration of the deployment of its earth observing system nasa is pleased to share the newest in its series of stunning earth images affectionately named the blue marble this new earth imagery enhances the blue marble legacy by providing a detailed look at an entire year in the life of our planet.
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Evans command module pilot.
Schmitt lunar module pilot traveling toward the moon.
Along with their primary purpose of supporting the short term weather prediction and disaster response communities they also provide new data for tracking wildfires gas flares and light pollution and have numerous socioeconomic uses such as proxying economic activity monitoring changes in.
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.
View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew traveling toward the moon.
And scientist astronaut harrison h.
Fewer people know that nasa also studies earth.
This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date.
This image is one of several global images of the earth at night released in 2017.
This is the first time the apollo trajectory made it possible to photograph the south polar ice cap.
This was the first time the apollo trajectory.
This translunar coast photograph extends from the mediterranean sea area to the antarctica south polar ice cap.
Published december 6 2012.
View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew astronaut eugene a.
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 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.
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.
Nasa s black marble enables a wide range of applications for a broad spectrum of data users.
The next generation blue marble everyone knows that nasa studies space.
Fifty years ago on april 22 1970 people around the world marked the first earth day.
Night lights 2012 the black marble.