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 nasa images of earth.
Earth the blue marble.
This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date.
This composite image uses a number of swaths of the earth s surface taken on january 4 2012.
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.
And scientist astronaut harrison h.
This was the first time the apollo trajectory.
To learn more about the development of nasa s imagery of the earth as a whole read the history of the blue marble.
In sharing these blue marble images nasa hopes the public will join with the agency in its continuing exploration of our world from the unique perspective of space.
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.
View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew astronaut eugene a.
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.
It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica.
Evans command module pilot.