Earth Big Blue Marble Photograph

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Earth big blue marble photograph. The blue marble shot. A blue marble image of the earth taken from the viirs instrument aboard nasa s most recently launched earth observing satellite suomi npp. This translunar coast photograph extends from the mediterranean sea area to the antarctica south polar ice cap. It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica.

New blue marble photo is jaw dropping. 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. We re showing the true original photograph with the south pole on top. View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew astronaut eugene a.

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. 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. The blue marble photo that changed the world. One of the striking images is a new blue marble photograph of the western hemisphere.

This image shows south america from september 2004. Our first complete photograph of earth. Next generation is a series of images that show the color of the earth s surface for each month of 2004 at very high resolution 500 meters pixel at a global scale. But it was this 1972 photograph of earth taken by the apollo 17 astronauts that garnered the most notice and is forever enshrined as the best loved blue marble photo.

This composite image uses a number of swaths of the earth s surface taken on january 4 2012. The npp satellite was renamed suomi npp on january 24 2012 to honor the late verner e. This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date. By kacey deamer 23 january 2017.