Schmitt lunar module pilot traveling toward the moon.
Blue marble nasa images of earth.
This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date.
This was the first time the apollo trajectory.
Evans command module pilot.
The npp satellite was renamed suomi npp on january 24 2012 to honor the late verner e.
And scientist astronaut harrison h.
Earth the blue marble.
It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica.
To learn more about the development of nasa s imagery of the earth as a whole read the history of the blue marble.
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.
View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew astronaut eugene a.
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.
Recalling the famous apollo era pictures of earth taken by lunar astronauts this digital image is a spectacular portrait of the western hemisphere at the time of one of the strongest hurricanes ever observed in the eastern pacific.
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.
This composite image uses a number of swaths of the earth s surface taken on january 4 2012.