Blue Marble 2012 Fisheye

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Blue marble 2012 fisheye.

This was the first time the apollo trajectory. See google earth again. It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica. Both of these new blue marble images are images taken by a new instrument flying aboard suomi npp the visible infrared imaging radiometer suite viirs.

Blue marble 1972 blue marble 2002 aqua marble 2005. This story has however a happier ending in the newst blue marble the one showing africa. Blue marble 2012 white marble 2012 black marble 2012. The npp satellite was renamed suomi npp on january 24 2012 to honor the late verner e.

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 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. Amazing high definition image of earth caption a new high definition version of the blue marble has been taken from the newest earth observation satellite. Composite image showing a variety of views of earth from space.

A quick trip to google earth shows how a real blue marble would have looked like minus the clouds. Bottom row left to right. This composite image uses a number of swaths of the earth s surface taken on january 4 2012. Nice to see somebody at nasa still interested in the real world.

A blue marble image of the earth taken from the viirs instrument aboard nasa s most recently launched earth observing satellite suomi npp. The new image is a composite of six separate orbits taken on january 23 2012 by the suomi national polar orbiting partnership satellite. Vintage german glass marble 15 to 16mm light blue swirl marble small glass ball vintage marble in perfect condition eco friendly toy atvintage.