World Map Blue Marble

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.

World map blue marble.

Night lights 2012 the black marble. Next generation images show earth in true color. Next generation offers a year s worth of. 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.

This was the first time the apollo trajectory. 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. 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. 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.

It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica. Nasa s terra satellite collected these images. There is one blue marble image for each month of the year 2004. Fewer people know that nasa also studies earth.

Published december 6 2012. 5 out of 5 stars 135 135 reviews 10 75. 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. Download gis software by blue marble geographics including global mapper geographic calculator and geographic tracker.

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. Next generation offers greater spatial detail of the surface and spans a longer data collection period than the original. 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. Those show the earth as it looks from space.

Blue marble was initially created by nasa s goddard space flight center the night lights by noaa s. Of course my version is a little less blue and a little more green and especially more yellow red and brown. The images show how the surface would look to a human in space if our world had no clouds and no atmosphere. The next generation blue marble everyone knows that nasa studies space.