Blue Marble 2012

Washed by seas of unsullied shades of blue and caressed by snowy clouds gaia gleams in pristine splendor.

Blue marble 2012.

This image really has the ability to suck you in make you think about yourself make you think about everything inside that marble permanently stick into your mind and make you smile. Published december 6 2012. This image was released to the public on january 25 2012. A new high definition version of the blue marble has been taken from the newest earth observation satellite.

It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica. Blue marble 2012 how serene the earth looks from the heavens. 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. A blue marble image of the earth taken from the viirs instrument aboard nasa s most recently launched earth observing satellite suomi npp.

Map of 2012 beautified using combined data from many satellite pictures taken in april and october 2012 nasa published a beautified map in which the night lights were shown in yellow on a blue ified version of the day time blue marble picture. The npp satellite was renamed suomi npp on january 24 2012 to honor the late verner e. It shows even faint lights rather brightly and is thus well suited to spot even villages. Suomi of the university of wisconsin.

Night lights 2012 the black marble. The most amazing high definition image of earth blue marble 2012 nasa if nasa says it s the best image ever of earth i m guessing that it is. This composite image uses a number of swaths of the earth s surface taken on january 4 2012. 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.

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. Nasa s most amazing high def image of earth so far. Night lights imagery by noaa s earth observation group privacy policy. The npp satellite was renamed suomi npp on january 24 2012 to honor the late verner e.

A blue marble image of the earth taken from the viirs instrument aboard nasa s earth observing satellite suomi npp. This was the first time the apollo trajectory.