The Blue Marble Night Lights Map

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.

The blue marble night lights map.

Nasa is responsible for the blue marble made from a compilation of satellite images throughout 2001. Here you can browse their maximum resolution of four pixels per km as well as a slightly coarser night lights map enhanced by town names and national borders. Night lights 2012 the black marble. 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.

Here are some useful links. Published december 6 2012. This was the first time the apollo trajectory. From to initial heading magnetic heading distance.

Blue marble the most detailed true color image of the earth s surface ever produced. Blue marble was initially created by nasa s goddard space flight center the night lights by noaa s. Show hide latitude and longitude show hide fractional heading lax 33 56 33 n 118 24 29 w akl 37 00 29 s 174 47 30 e. Nasa s blue marble pictures of earth show each month of the year 2004 to illustrate changes in snow cover and vegetation.

The light pollution map has two base layers road and hybrid bing maps viirs world atlas clouds overlays and a point feature overlay sqm sqc and observatories. This map is based on light pollution data updated in 2006 by david lorenz. Faq featured maps more home map distances. Night lights imagery by noaa s earth observation group privacy policy.

The blue marble is an incredibly detailed true color depiction of the earth and is shown on the daylight side of the earth in this dataset. It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica. Direct annual comparisons are to be avoided as there are too many factors involved. A map from the great circle mapper.

By removing natural and stray light sources researchers have provided a clearer picture of the human footprint on earth and opened up new opportunities in disaster response demographics and applied research. 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. 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.