The Big Blue Marble Photo

A blue marble image of the earth taken from the viirs instrument aboard nasa s most recently launched earth observing satellite suomi npp.

The big blue marble photo. New blue marble photo is jaw dropping. We re showing the true original photograph with the south pole on top. 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. This composite image uses a number of swaths of the earth s surface taken on january 4 2012.

The blue marble photo that changed the world. This translunar coast photograph extends from the mediterranean sea area to the antarctica south polar ice cap. Big blue marble was a half hour children s television series that ran from 1974 to 1983 on numerous syndicated and pbs tv stations. Distinctive content included stories about children around the world and a pen pal club that encouraged intercultural communication.

It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica. Evans command module pilot. View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew astronaut eugene a. The npp satellite was renamed suomi npp on january 24 2012 to honor the late verner e.

By kacey deamer 23 january 2017. Each episode contained 2 or 3 different segments each one focusing on a child. The lives homes and cultures of children around the world are explored. But it was this 1972 photograph of earth taken by the apollo 17 astronauts that garnered the most notice and is forever enshrined as the best loved blue marble photo.

With daphne youree ali tisha campbell martin barbara card. 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. Big blue marble was a children s television program that aired from 1974 1983. An image from noaa nasa satellite goes 16 shows a composite color full disk visible image of.

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. Schmitt lunar module pilot traveling toward the moon. In the nasa archive its formal designation is as17 148 22727 but it s commonly known as the blue marble shot and forty years later we still aren t sure who actually took it.