High Resolution Blue Marble

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

High resolution blue marble. Make sure to see this sucker full size to really. A blue marble image of the earth taken from the viirs instrument aboard nasa s most recently launched earth observing satellite suomi npp. This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date. Next generation is a series of images that show the color of the earth s surface for each month of 2004 at very high resolution 500 meters pixel at a global scale.

Nasa has just published what it calls the most amazing highest resolution image of earth ever dubbed blue marble the 64 megapixel image weighing in at 8000 8000 pixels is actually a composite photograph taken on january 4th of this year using a number of captures stitched together from nasa s earth observing satellite suomi npp. Night lights 2012 the black marble. Published december 6 2012. 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 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. This image shows south america from september 2004. 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 was the first time the apollo trajectory.