Amazingly it turns out a number of internet sleuths have now found compelling new evidence that the image is indeed a fake.
Blue marble 2012 fake.
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 story has however a happier ending in the newst blue marble the one showing africa.
No the suomi satellite at 517 miles it actually higher than terra at 438 miles.
Night lights 2012 the black marble.
This composite image uses a number of swaths of the earth s surface taken on january 4 2012.
A blue marble image of the earth taken from the viirs instrument aboard nasa s most recently launched earth observing satellite suomi npp.
Iron clad evidence that nasa faked the blue marble ii photo of earth.
What made the blue marble successful is that it appealed to the general public.
A blue marble image of the earth taken from the viirs instrument aboard nasa s most recently launched earth observing satellite suomi npp.
The blue marble is a famous photograph of the earth taken on december 7 1972 by the crew of the.
I can happily report it is the way it should ve been.
It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica.
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.
Is the difference here because the suomi satellite at a lower height compared to the terra satellite from the 2002 images.
And from either of those altitudes you.
Is there something surprising about you your hobbies interests activities outside of work that people do not generally know.
We ll call the above image blue marble i.
The guy who created the iphone s earth image explains why he needed to fake it.
The npp satellite was renamed suomi npp on january 24 2012 to honor the late verner e.
Operating system only in 2012.
My girlfriend and i have two rare new guinea singing dogs or singers as part of a worldwide conservation program.
This was the first time the apollo trajectory.
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.
A quick trip to google earth shows how a real blue marble would have looked like minus the clouds.
Eowyn when we think of earth this iconic image of the blue marble immediately comes to mind.
The world to the iphone known as the blue marble is worth.
Published december 6 2012.
That s blue marble 2012 another composite image but this time made with the suomi npp satellite.
