Nasa Blue Marble 2012
23 2012 by the suomi national polar orbiting partnership satellite.
Nasa blue marble 2012. Responding to public demand nasa scientists created a companion image to the wildly popular blue marble released last week january 25 2012. The npp satellite was renamed suomi npp on january 24 2012 to honor the late verner e. On january 25 2012 nasa released a composite image of the western hemisphere of earth titled blue marble 2012 the picture logged over 3 1 million views on the flickr image hosting website within the first week of release. This composite image uses a number of swaths of the earth s surface taken on january 4 2012.
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. Nasa s blue marble pictures of earth show each month of the year 2004 to illustrate changes in snow cover and vegetation. This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date. On february 2 2012 nasa released a companion to this new blue marble showing a composite image of the eastern hemisphere from data obtained on january 23 2012.
Suomi npp orbits the earth about 14 times each day and observes nearly the entire 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 2012 the black marble. Nasa noaa view the original here.
A blue marble image of the earth taken from the viirs instrument aboard nasa s most recently launched earth observing satellite suomi npp. 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. Fifteen orbits of the recently launched suomi npp satellite provided the viirs instrument enough time and longitude to gather the pixels for this synthesized view of earth showing the arctic europe and asia. Nasa s most amazing high def image of earth so far.
This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date. The two way the space agency s latest composite image of earth offers a detailed view of north and central america. Flickr the new image is a composite of six separate orbits taken on jan. Published december 6 2012.
Blue marble was initially created by nasa s goddard space flight center the night lights by noaa s. Next generation offers greater spatial detail of the surface and spans a longer data collection period than the original.