The photo released feb.
Blue marble space photo.
The so called full disk image shows north america and south america and the surrounding oceans with swirling.
This translunar coast photograph extends from the mediterranean sea area to the antarctica south polar ice cap.
And scientist astronaut harrison h.
Earthrise was followed by blue marble a view of the earth taken from the apollo 17 spacecraft in 1972.
Schmitt lunar module pilot traveling toward the moon.
One of the striking images is a new blue marble photograph of the western hemisphere.
It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica.
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.
That was the last of the apollo moon missions but nasa s space probes continued to take.
The npp satellite was renamed suomi npp on january 24 2012 to honor the late verner e.
A blue marble image of the earth taken from the viirs instrument aboard nasa s most recently launched earth observing satellite suomi npp in this amazing space wallpaper.
View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew astronaut eugene a.
Dubbed the blue marble earth is revealed as both a vast planet home to billions of creatures and a beautiful orb capable of fitting into the pocket of the universe.
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The secret of nasa s amazing blue marble photos this photo from nasa s suomi npp satellite shows the eastern hemisphere of earth in blue marble view.
This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date.
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.
A blue marble image of the earth taken from the viirs instrument aboard nasa s most recently launched earth observing satellite suomi npp.
Evans command module pilot.