High Resolution Blue Marble

Night lights 2012 the black marble.

High resolution blue marble.

Next generation is a series of images that show the color of the earth s surface for each month of 2004 at very high resolution 500 meters pixel at a global scale. Published december 6 2012. The npp satellite was renamed suomi npp on january 24 2012 to honor the late verner e. 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.

This image shows south america from september 2004. 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. Nasa has just published what it calls the most amazing highest resolution image of earth ever dubbed blue marble the 64 megapixel image weighing in at 8000 8000 pixels is actually a composite photograph taken on january 4th of this year using a number of captures stitched together from nasa s earth observing satellite suomi npp.

It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica. This composite image uses a number of swaths of the earth s surface taken on january 4 2012. A blue marble image of the earth taken from the viirs instrument aboard nasa s most recently launched earth observing satellite suomi npp. This was the first time the apollo trajectory.