Planet Earth Blue Marble
The earth called blue marble.
Planet earth blue marble. The blue marble one of the most iconic images of the earth taken in 1972 by the moon bound crew of the apollo 17 spacecraft may just have been trumped by a new 6 second clip video. The clouds themselves are white reflecting the white direct sunlight back out at any onlookers. And to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot the only home we ve ever known. Next generation is a series of images that show the color of the earth s surface for each month of 2004 at very high resolution 500 meters pixel at a global scale.
The entire planet isn t blue of course. For more replay from the beginning blue marble earth. 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. And scientist astronaut harrison h.
Evans command module pilot. A blue marble image of the earth taken from the viirs instrument aboard nasa s most recently launched earth observing satellite suomi npp. View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew astronaut eugene a. 1 2 3 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 this spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date. This translunar coast photograph extends from the mediterranean sea area to the antarctica south polar ice cap. Schmitt lunar module pilot traveling toward the moon. This image shows south.
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. Nasa s visible earth catalog of nasa images and animations of our home planet north africa and europe from suomi npp published june 19 2012 over a period of six orbits on on february 3 2012 the recently. This composite image uses a number of swaths of the earth s surface taken on.