Here you can browse their maximum resolution of four pixels per km as well as a slightly coarser night lights map enhanced by town names and national borders.
Blue marble night map.
Nasa s terra satellite collected these images.
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.
Blue marble was initially created by nasa s goddard space flight center the night lights by noaa s.
I certainly never thought that i would become mr.
There is one blue marble image for each month of the year 2004.
Next generation images show earth in true color.
Next generation offers greater spatial detail of the surface and spans a longer data collection period than the original.
Night lights 2012 the black marble.
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.
Blue marble we have since updated the base maps by increasing the resolution and for 2004 we made a series of monthly maps.
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.
June blue marble next generation w topography.
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.
I was happy with it but had no idea how widespread it would become.
That ball became the famous blue marble.
Night lights imagery by noaa s earth observation group privacy policy.
Published december 6 2012.
The images show how the surface would look to a human in space if our world had no clouds and no atmosphere.
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.
It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica.
Next generation offers greater spatial detail of the surface and spans a longer data collection period than the original.
Next generation offers a year s worth of.