The Blue Marble Nasa 2015

Blue marble the most detailed true color image of the earth s surface ever produced.

The blue marble nasa 2015.

As mark twain once said distance lends enchantment to the view. This definitely holds true for the deep space climate observatory or dscovr a new space weather mission from noaa that also carries nasa instruments to keep an eye on earth. 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. Next generation is a mosaic of satellite data taken mostly from a nasa sensor called the moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer modis that flies board nasa s terra and aqua satellites.

This blue marble is the first fully illuminated snapshot of the earth captured by the dscovr satellite a joint nasa noaa and u s. Fifty years ago on april 22 1970 people around the world marked the first earth day. Deep space climate observatory dscovr a solar weather and earth observation satellite that was launched in february 2015 and will provide a near continuous view of the entire sunlit side of the earth. View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew astronaut eugene a.

Evans command module pilot. Put together from about 10 000 satellite scenes each file over 300 mb collected over 100 days 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. December 7 1972. This site is maintained by the planetary science communications team at nasa s jet propulsion laboratory for nasa s science mission.

The blue marble published. 19 2015 at an approximate altitude of 240 miles 385 kilometers above. And scientist astronaut harrison h. This translunar coast photograph extends from the mediterranean sea area to the antarctica south polar ice cap.

Return of the blue marble. Taken by nasa s dawn spacecraft. Like the original the blue marble. The blue marble october 2015.

While it might seem simple it is actually a rather complex process. Satellites like suomi national polar orbiting partnership npp get a complete view of our planet each day which allows us to create beautiful images of earth like the one shown here. Dawn took this image on dec. Dawn lamo image 8.

Launched in february 2015 dscovr is now a million miles from earth where it can look back and see half of our planet all at once. The image was taken on july 6 2015.