Blue Marble Original

View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew astronaut eugene a.

Blue marble original.

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. Next generation is a mosaic of satellite data taken mostly from a nasa sensor called the moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer that flies board nasa s terra and aqua satellites. We are looking for original work that hasn t been published anywhere else either online or in print. Like the original the blue marble.

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. This translunar coast photograph extends from the mediterranean sea area to the antarctica south polar ice cap. The blue marble from apollo 17. This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date.

View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew traveling toward the moon. Next generation offers a year s worth of. 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. 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.

This translunar coast photograph extends from the mediterranean sea area to the antarctica south polar ice cap. This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date. Blue marble review accepts submissions year round from writers ages 13 22. Next generation offers greater spatial detail of the surface and spans a longer data collection period than the original.

This image was taken by the crew of the final apollo mission as they made their way to the moon. This classic photograph of the earth was taken on december 7 1972. It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica. Also like its predecessor the new blue marble is available free of charge to educators scientists museums businesses.

And scientist astronaut harrison h. 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. 16mm goldfish glass mega marble players 5 8th inch translucent orange rare. Send us your flash stories or something longer upper limit 1500 words.

This was the first time the apollo trajectory. The original caption is reprinted below. Schmitt lunar module pilot traveling toward the moon. Old rare vintage antique civil war relic clay marble recovered atlanta georgia.