Nasa is responsible for the blue marble made from a compilation of satellite images throughout 2001.
The blue marble night lights map.
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.
Night light maps open up new applications.
This map is based on light pollution data updated in 2006 by david lorenz.
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By removing natural and stray light sources researchers have provided a clearer picture of the human footprint on earth and opened up new opportunities in disaster response demographics and applied research.
Blue marble was initially created by nasa s goddard space flight center the night lights by noaa s.
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The light pollution map has two base layers road and hybrid bing maps viirs world atlas clouds overlays and a point feature overlay sqm sqc and observatories.
Published december 6 2012.
Blue marble the most detailed true color image of the earth s surface ever produced.
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.
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 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.
Night lights imagery by noaa s earth observation group privacy policy.
A map from the great circle mapper.
It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica.
Nasa s blue marble pictures of earth show each month of the year 2004 to illustrate changes in snow cover and vegetation.
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Night lights 2012 the black marble.
From to initial heading magnetic heading distance.
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Welcome to the improved darksitefinder light pollution map.
Direct annual comparisons are to be avoided as there are too many factors involved.