The Blue Marble Photo Of Earth
The last time anyone took a photograph from above low earth orbit that showed an entire hemisphere one side of a globe was in 1972 during apollo 17.
The blue marble photo of earth. 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. Subsequent blue marble images. Nasa s earth observing system eos satellites were designed to give a check up of earth s health. It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica.
A new weather satellite has relayed its first images of earth back to scientists and the new collection which includes an updated version of the iconic blue marble image of earth is simply. This translunar coast photograph extends from the mediterranean sea area to the antarctica south polar ice cap. By 2002 we finally had enough data to make a snap shot of the entire earth. This composite image uses a number of swaths of the earth s surface taken on january 4 2012.
Schmitt lunar module pilot traveling toward the moon. A blue marble image of the earth taken from the viirs instrument aboard nasa s most recently launched earth observing satellite suomi npp. A set of satellite images was released by nasa in 2002 including the prepared images for. Earth the blue marble.
This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date. This was the first time the apollo trajectory. Evans command module pilot. Similar images of the earth have also been designated as blue marble images with the phrase blue marble frequently used by the environmentalists and organizations to promote environmental conservation and consciousness.
View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew astronaut eugene a. 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. 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.
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.