Blue Marble 2012 Nasa Earth Picture

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.

Blue marble 2012 nasa earth picture.

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. According to flickr the western hemisphere blue marble 2012 image has rocketed up to over 3 1 million views making it one of the all time most viewed images on the site after only one week a blue marble image of the earth taken from the viirs instrument aboard nasa s most recently launched earth observing satellite suomi npp. The npp satellite was renamed suomi npp on january 24 2012 to honor the late verner e. Published december 6 2012.

A blue marble image of the earth taken from the viirs instrument aboard nasa s most recently launched earth observing satellite suomi npp. Fewer people know that nasa also studies earth. Evans command module pilot. Behold one of the more detailed images of the earth yet created.

This blue marble earth montage shown above created from photographs taken by the visible infrared imager radiometer suite viirs instrument on board the new suomi npp satellite shows many stunning details of our home 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. The next generation blue marble everyone knows that nasa studies space. This composite image uses a number of swaths of the earth s surface taken on january 4 2012.

Nasa noaa view the original here. January 25 2012 updated february 2 2012. And scientist astronaut harrison h. This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date.

Flickr the new image is a composite of six separate orbits taken on jan. View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew astronaut eugene a. Schmitt lunar module pilot traveling toward the moon. On january 25 2012 nasa released a composite image of the western hemisphere of earth titled blue marble 2012 the picture logged over 3 1 million views on the flickr image hosting website within the first week of release.

23 2012 by the suomi national polar orbiting partnership satellite. On february 2 2012 nasa released a companion to this new blue marble showing a composite image of the eastern hemisphere from data obtained on january 23 2012.