Nasa Blue Marble Wallpaper

Schmitt lunar module pilot traveling toward the moon.

Nasa blue marble wallpaper.

Night lights 2012 the black marble. Published december 6 2012. It creates desktop backgrounds that are accurate representations of the earth. A blue marble image of the earth taken from the viirs instrument aboard nasa s most recently launched earth observing satellite suomi npp.

Click on the screen resolution you would like to use. This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date. It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica. View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew astronaut eugene a.

See the blue marble next generation a true color earth dataset including seasonal dynamics from modis 880 kb pdf for acknowledgments. 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. 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. The npp satellite was renamed suomi npp on january 24 2012 to honor the late verner e.

Right click on the image control click on a mac and select the option set the background or set as wallpaper or similar. This was the first time the apollo trajectory. This translunar coast photograph extends from the mediterranean sea area to the antarctica south polar ice cap. And scientist astronaut harrison h.

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. Wm 544791 is the search number for these image. Next generation was produced by reto stöckli nasa earth observatory nasa goddard space flight center. The imagery is based on nasa s blue marble next and earth s city lights.

Day and night is accurately represented depending on the sun s overhead position which depends on the time of day and the day of the year. 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. 1440 x 900. Evans command module pilot.

A blue marble image of the earth taken from the viirs instrument aboard nasa s most recently launched earth observing satellite suomi npp in this amazing space wallpaper.