Earth the blue marble.
Blue marble nasa images of earth.
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This translunar coast photograph extends from the mediterranean sea area to the antarctica south polar ice cap.
A blue marble image of the earth taken from the viirs instrument aboard nasa s most recently launched earth observing satellite suomi npp.
Blue marble image of the earth from apollo 17.
Nasa has released several similar images of earth since then but they.
This composite image uses a number of swaths of the earth s surface taken on january 4 2012.
View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew astronaut eugene a.
At the time of publication it represented the best available science.
Recalling the famous apollo era pictures of earth taken by lunar astronauts this digital image is a spectacular portrait of the western hemisphere at the time of one of the strongest hurricanes ever observed in the eastern pacific.
And scientist astronaut harrison h.
Schmitt lunar module pilot traveling toward the moon.
The npp satellite was renamed suomi npp on january 24 2012 to honor the late verner e.
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.
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.
On monday nasa released a photo of the entire sunlit side of earth the first since the original blue marble photo in 1972.
Published december 6 2012.