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.
Blue marble navigator dark skies map.
And don t forget to c heck out the globe at night interactive light pollution map data created with eight years of data collected by citizen scientists.
Thank you to everyone who continued to visit despite the errors and thank you also to those who have submitted their favorite dark sites.
Night lights imagery by noaa s earth observation group privacy policy.
Sortable dark site listing add a new dark site how to see the milky way how to see the aurora color scale meaning more astronomy links.
Next generation offers a year s worth of.
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.
Night lights imagery by noaa s earth observation group privacy policy.
Nasa blue marble navigator.
The map is easier to share since the url changes as you move around.
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I m still working out some of the bugs but i ll continue trying to find ways to improve the site.
Next generation offers greater spatial detail of the surface and spans a longer data collection period than the original.
Display of a section of the 86400 43200 blue marble pictures that nasa derived from imagery taken in 2004.
Nasa s next generation blue marble imagery available here is a set of 12 monthly composite images of the entire earth using 500 meter resolution imagery from the modis satellite the blue marble navigator offers a convenient interface to view this imagery along with several other useful options.
Welcome to the improved darksitefinder light pollution map.
Here are some useful links.
After selecting your initial location from a world map the main interface comes up.
The shown section is 720 600 by default but can be resized using the and buttons at the top.
More info on the features of this site.