This translunar coast photograph extends from the mediterranean sea area to the antarctica south polar ice cap.
The blue marble nasa 2015.
Next generation is a mosaic of satellite data taken mostly from a nasa sensor called the moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer modis that flies board nasa s terra and aqua satellites.
This definitely holds true for the deep space climate observatory or dscovr a new space weather mission from noaa that also carries nasa instruments to keep an eye on earth.
Launched in february 2015 dscovr is now a million miles from earth where it can look back and see half of our planet all at once.
Evans command module pilot.
As mark twain once said distance lends enchantment to the view.
While it might seem simple it is actually a rather complex process.
Schmitt lunar module pilot traveling toward the moon.
Like the original the blue marble.
View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew astronaut eugene a.
The blue marble this spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date.
Taken by nasa s dawn spacecraft.
Dawn lamo image 8.
Deep space climate observatory dscovr a solar weather and earth observation satellite that was launched in february 2015 and will provide a near continuous view of the entire sunlit side of the earth.
Return of the blue marble.
This site is maintained by the planetary science communications team at nasa s jet propulsion laboratory for nasa s science mission.
Fifty years ago on april 22 1970 people around the world marked the first earth day.
And scientist astronaut harrison h.
Satellites like suomi national polar orbiting partnership npp get a complete view of our planet each day which allows us to create beautiful images of earth like the one shown here.
Blue marble the most detailed true color image of the earth s surface ever produced.
December 7 1972.
The blue marble published.
The image was taken on july 6 2015.
19 2015 at an approximate altitude of 240 miles 385 kilometers above.
Put together from about 10 000 satellite scenes each file over 300 mb collected over 100 days 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.
On july 21 2015 nasa released a new blue marble photograph taken by a u s.
The blue marble october 2015.