Blue Marble Original

This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date.

Blue marble original.

The original caption is reprinted below. Next generation offers a year s worth of. 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. This image was taken by the crew of the final apollo mission as they made their way to the moon.

View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew astronaut eugene a. This classic photograph of the earth was taken on december 7 1972. Also like its predecessor the new blue marble is available free of charge to educators scientists museums businesses. And scientist astronaut harrison h.

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 was the first time the apollo trajectory. Send us your flash stories or something longer upper limit 1500 words. This translunar coast photograph extends from the mediterranean sea area to the antarctica south polar ice cap.

Next generation offers greater spatial detail of the surface and spans a longer data collection period than the original. We are looking for original work that hasn t been published anywhere else either online or in print. Next generation is a mosaic of satellite data taken mostly from a nasa sensor called the moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer that flies board nasa s terra and aqua satellites. It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica.

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. The blue marble from apollo 17. Old rare vintage antique civil war relic clay marble recovered atlanta georgia. Evans command module pilot.

View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew traveling toward the moon. This translunar coast photograph extends from the mediterranean sea area to the antarctica south polar ice cap. Rare original unopened huge bag of 100 vitro all red marbles exceptional marbles. 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.

This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date. 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. Blue marble review accepts submissions year round from writers ages 13 22. 16mm goldfish glass mega marble players 5 8th inch translucent orange rare.