Blue Marble Nasa Images Of Earth

View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew astronaut eugene a.

Blue marble nasa images of 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. Evans command module pilot. To learn more about the development of nasa s imagery of the earth as a whole read the history of 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.

This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date. Recalling the famous apollo era pictures of earth taken by lunar astronauts this digital image is a spectacular portrait of the western hemisphere at the time of one of the strongest hurricanes ever observed in the eastern pacific. The npp satellite was renamed suomi npp on january 24 2012 to honor the late verner e. Schmitt lunar module pilot traveling toward the moon.

This translunar coast photograph extends from the mediterranean sea area to the antarctica south polar ice cap. 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. A blue marble image of the earth taken from the viirs instrument aboard nasa s most recently launched earth observing satellite suomi npp. This was the first time the apollo trajectory.

Earth the blue 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.