Blue Marble Project

A vision of the human future in space in honor of carl sagan s pale blue dot we at homeland solar proudly take part in the blue marble project.

Blue marble project.

Nasa s blue marble project presents freely available photorealistic maps of our planet earth. All rights reserved blue marble 2015 blue marble 2015. Blue marble was highly capable responsive flexible with our needs for support and was able to work within our timeline and budget for completion doug d orsi pmp. 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.

View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew astronaut eugene a. Project management transformation analyst fieldcore a division of ge for our organization blue marble s impact has been immediate and tremendous. The next generation blue marble everyone knows that nasa studies space. Now blue mind has set out to pass a blue marble through every yes every person s hand on earth with a simple message of gratitude along with it.

Next generation offers a year s worth of. 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 was the first time the apollo trajectory. It s a low tech slow motion global art project and a clear reminder that everything we do on this water planet matters.

Carl sagan pale blue dot. Fewer people know that nasa also studies earth. Schmitt lunar module pilot traveling toward the moon. Evans command module pilot.

The blue marble project. The original blue marble was a composite of four months of modis observations with a spatial resolution level of detail of 1 square kilometer per pixel. Blue marble review accepts submissions year round from writers ages 13 22. It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica.

And scientist astronaut harrison h. Using data from the moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer modis aboard nasa s terra satellite scientists and data visualizers stitched together a full year s worth of monthly observations of the land surface coastal oceans sea ice and clouds into. This translunar coast photograph extends from the mediterranean sea area to the antarctica south polar ice cap. Next generation offers greater spatial detail of the surface and spans a longer data collection period than the original.

The blue marbles project has set out to pass a blue marble through every person s hand on earth with a simple message of gratitude along with it.