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