This was the first time the apollo trajectory.
Blue marble basemap imagery.
Next generation offers a year s worth of.
The resolution holds up to about 1 2 000 000 so it s great for global and regional maps.
Ok so what is this basemap made of.
Next generation offers greater spatial detail of the surface and spans a longer data collection period than the original.
The shown section is 720 600 by default but can be resized using the and buttons at the top.
A hallmark of a firefly map is the dark desaturated imagery basemap.
This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date.
Clicking near the edge of the picture moves the focus into the respective direction clicking on its center zooms in and back out thus switching between 4 and 0 5 gigapixel.
It is a set of cloud free image mosaics from nasa s blue marble.
It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica.
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.
Display of a section of the 86400 43200 blue marble pictures that nasa derived from imagery taken in 2004.
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 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.
Fewer people know that nasa also studies earth.