Nasa Blue Marble 2012

The npp satellite was renamed suomi npp on january 24 2012 to honor the late verner e.

Nasa blue marble 2012.

To learn more about the development of nasa s imagery of the earth as a whole read the history of the blue marble. Responding to public demand nasa scientists created a companion image to the wildly popular blue marble released last week january 25 2012. Nasa s blue marble pictures of earth show each month of the year 2004 to illustrate changes in snow cover and vegetation. A blue marble image of the earth taken from the viirs instrument aboard nasa s most recently launched earth observing satellite suomi npp.

On january 25 2012 nasa released a composite image of the western hemisphere of earth titled blue marble 2012 the picture logged over 3 1 million views on the flickr image hosting website within the first week of release. Published december 6 2012. Next generation offers greater spatial detail of the surface and spans a longer data collection period than the original. Suomi npp orbits the earth about 14 times each day and observes nearly the entire surface.

The original blue marble was a composite of four months of modis observations. Flickr the new image is a composite of six separate orbits taken on jan. 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.

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. On february 2 2012 nasa released a companion to this new blue marble showing a composite image of the eastern hemisphere from data obtained on january 23 2012. Fifteen orbits of the recently launched suomi npp satellite provided the viirs instrument enough time and longitude to gather the pixels for this synthesized view of earth showing the arctic europe and asia. Night lights 2012 the black marble.

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. Blue marble was initially created by nasa s goddard space flight center the night lights by noaa s. 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. The two way the space agency s latest composite image of earth offers a detailed view of north and central america.

Nasa s most amazing high def image of earth so far. 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.