Blue marble we have since updated the base maps by increasing the resolution and for 2004 we made a series of monthly maps.
Blue marble base map nasa.
Nasa s terra satellite collected these images.
Next generation offers greater spatial detail of the surface and spans a longer data collection period than the original.
Nasa lance fire information for resource management system provides near real time active fire data from modis and viirs to meet the needs of firefighters scientists and users interested in monitoring fires.
Fewer people know that nasa also studies earth.
I certainly never thought that i would become mr.
There is one blue marble image for each month of the year 2004.
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.
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.
To learn more about the development of nasa s imagery of the earth as a whole read the history of the blue marble.
This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date.
I was happy with it but had no idea how widespread it would become.
Clicking near the edge of the picture moves the focus into the respective direction clicking on its center zooms in and back out thus switching between 4 and 0 5 gigapixel.
The original blue marble was a composite of four months of modis observations.
The next generation blue marble everyone knows that nasa studies space.
Display of a section of the 86400 43200 blue marble pictures that nasa derived from imagery taken in 2004.
The shown section is 720 600 by default but can be resized using the and buttons at the top.
The images show how the surface would look to a human in space if our world had no clouds and no atmosphere.
Night lights 2012 the black marble.
Published december 6 2012.
This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date.
We never thought it would become an icon.
Nasa s blue marble pictures of earth show each month of the year 2004 to illustrate changes in snow cover and vegetation.
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.
That ball became the famous blue marble.
Next generation images show earth in true color.
Fire data is available for download or can be viewed through a map interface.
