Blue Marble Nasa 2015

To learn more about the development of nasa s imagery of the earth as a whole read the history of the blue marble.

Blue marble nasa 2015.

This blue marble is the first fully illuminated snapshot of the earth captured by the dscovr satellite a joint nasa noaa and u s. 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 offers greater spatial detail of the surface and spans a longer data collection period than the original. Nasa s terra satellite collected these images.

Dec 18 2015 return of the blue marble as mark twain once said distance lends enchantment to the view this definitely holds true for the deep space climate observatory or dscovr a new space weather mission from noaa that also carries nasa instruments to keep an eye on earth. View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew astronaut eugene a. Evans command module pilot. And scientist astronaut harrison h.

The original blue marble was a composite of four months of modis observations. While it might seem simple it is actually a rather complex process. The images show how the surface would look to a human in space if our world had no clouds and no atmosphere. Fifty years ago on april 22 1970 people around the world marked the first earth day.

The blue marble october 2015 satellites like suomi national polar orbiting partnership npp get a complete view of our planet each day which allows us to create beautiful images of earth like the one shown here. That s why today i am excited to see that nasa has released its new blue marble the first of many more to come later this year. There is one blue marble image for each month of the year 2004. This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date.

Next generation images show earth in true color.