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.
Blue marble base map nasa.
We never thought it would become an icon.
Next generation offers greater spatial detail of the surface and spans a longer data collection period than the original.
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.
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.
This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date.
The images show how the surface would look to a human in space if our world had no clouds and no atmosphere.
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.
Nasa lance fire information for resource management system provides near real time active fire data from modis and viirs to meet the needs of firefighters scientists and users interested in monitoring fires.
Nasa s blue marble pictures of earth show each month of the year 2004 to illustrate changes in snow cover and vegetation.
Blue marble we have since updated the base maps by increasing the resolution and for 2004 we made a series of monthly maps.
Fire data is available for download or can be viewed through a map interface.
That ball became the famous blue marble.
Fewer people know that nasa also studies earth.
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.
Published december 6 2012.
Display of a section of the 86400 43200 blue marble pictures that nasa derived from imagery taken in 2004.
Using data from the moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer modis aboard nasa s terra satellite scientists and data visualizers stitched together a full year s worth of monthly observations of the land surface coastal oceans sea ice and clouds into.
I was happy with it but had no idea how widespread it would become.
The shown section is 720 600 by default but can be resized using the and buttons at the top.
Nasa s terra satellite collected these images.
To learn more about the development of nasa s imagery of the earth as a whole read the history of the blue marble.
I certainly never thought that i would become mr.
The original blue marble was a composite of four months of modis observations.
Here you can browse their maximum resolution of four pixels per km as well as a slightly coarser night lights map enhanced by town names and national borders.
Night lights 2012 the black marble.
