Original Blue Marble Nasa

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.

Original blue marble nasa.

Next generation offers greater spatial detail of the surface and spans a longer data collection period than the original. 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. 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. 14 1990 by nasa s voyager 1 spacecraft.

Next generation offers greater spatial detail of the surface and spans a longer data collection period than the original. This was the first time the apollo trajectory. 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. Eowyn when we think of earth this iconic image of the blue marble immediately comes to mind.

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. This is the first time the apollo trajectory made it possible to photograph the south polar ice cap. 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.

June blue marble next generation w topography. View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew astronaut eugene a. 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. 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. The pale blue dot is an iconic photograph of earth taken on feb. We ll call the above image blue marble i. This translunar coast photograph extends from the mediterranean sea area to the antarctica south polar ice cap.

Next generation offers greater spatial detail of the surface and spans a longer data collection period than the original. Also like its predecessor the new blue marble is available free of charge to educators scientists museums businesses. Next generation offers a year s worth of. The original caption is reprinted below.

Evans command module pilot. Nasa s blue marble earth is a fake by dr. This translunar coast photograph extends from the mediterranean sea area to the antarctica south polar ice cap. 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.

This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date. This classic photograph of the earth was taken on december 7 1972.