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.
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This animated globe shows the city lights of the world as they appeared to the new suomi npp satellite which has at least 10 times better light resolving power than previous night viewing satellites.
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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.
Published december 6 2012.
Schmitt lunar module pilot traveling toward the moon.
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This translunar coast photograph extends from the mediterranean sea area to the antarctica south polar ice cap.
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.
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It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica.
This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date.
Next generation offers greater spatial detail of the surface and spans a longer data collection period than the original.
My part was integrating the surface clouds and oceans to match people s expectations of how earth looks from space.
We never thought it would become an icon.
Blue marble communications was founded in january 2017 with our focus on developing ultra high bandwidth communications equipment suitable for use in the up and coming global coverage satellite constellations.
They do it at a small fraction of the price of currently available space hardware.
I certainly never thought that i would become mr.
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View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew astronaut eugene a.
Night lights 2012 the black marble.
Bmsis is an initiative of blue marble space a 501 c 3 public charity.
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.
Evans command module pilot.
I was happy with it but had no idea how widespread it would become.