The original blue marble was a composite of four months of modis observations with a spatial resolution level of detail of 1 square kilometer per pixel.
Original blue marble nasa.
The original blue marble was a composite of four months of modis observations with a spatial resolution level of detail of 1 square kilometer per pixel.
14 1990 by nasa s voyager 1 spacecraft.
Schmitt lunar module pilot traveling toward the moon.
Voyager 1 was speeding out of the solar system beyond neptune and about 3 7 billion miles 6 billion kilometers from the sun when mission managers commanded it to look back toward home for a final time.
Next generation offers greater spatial detail of the surface and spans a longer data collection period than the original.
This translunar coast photograph extends from the mediterranean sea area to the antarctica south polar ice cap.
Also like its predecessor the new blue marble is available free of charge to educators scientists museums businesses.
Evans command module pilot.
It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica.
View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew traveling toward the moon.
This classic photograph of the earth was taken on december 7 1972.
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.
This was the first time the apollo trajectory.
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Next generation offers a year s worth of.
This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date.
The pale blue dot is an iconic photograph of earth taken on feb.
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.
June blue marble next generation w topography.
The original blue marble was a composite of four months of modis observations with a spatial resolution level of detail of 1 square kilometer per pixel.
Like the original the blue marble.
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.
Next generation is a mosaic of satellite data taken mostly from a nasa sensor called the moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer that flies board nasa s terra and aqua satellites.
This translunar coast photograph extends from the mediterranean sea area to the antarctica south polar ice cap.
And scientist astronaut harrison h.
The blue marble is a famous photograph of the earth taken on december 7 1972 by the crew of the.
We ll call the above image blue marble i.
Next generation offers greater spatial detail of the surface and spans a longer data collection period than the original.
Eowyn when we think of earth this iconic image of the blue marble immediately comes to mind.
