Blue Marble 2012 Nasa Earth Picture

The photo released feb.
Blue marble 2012 nasa earth picture. The secret of nasa s amazing blue marble photos this photo from nasa s suomi npp satellite shows the eastern hemisphere of earth in blue marble view. Nasa scientists created the two new blue marble images from data acquired by a new instrument that s aboard the earth observing satellite suomi npp the visible infrared imaging radiometer suite viirs. 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. The picture is composed of data obtained by the visible infrared imager radiometer suite viirs instrument on board the suomi npp satellite on january 4 2012.
This blue marble earth montage shown above created from photographs taken by the visible infrared imager radiometer suite viirs instrument on board the new suomi npp satellite shows many stunning details of our home planet. The npp satellite was renamed suomi npp on january 24 2012 to honor the late verner e. Published december 6 2012. Nasa on wednesday released blue marble 2012 a view of the home planet that the agency calls the most amazing high definition image of earth unlike the original blue marble the iconic 1972 photograph taken by the apollo 17 crew while they were on their way to the moon this composite image is made from data collected by the suomi npp.
Nasa s most amazing high def image of earth so far. On february 2 2012 nasa released a companion to this new blue marble showing a composite image of the eastern hemisphere from data obtained on january 23 2012. A blue marble image of the earth taken from the viirs instrument aboard nasa s most recently launched earth observing satellite suomi npp. The blue marble this spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date.
Night lights 2012 the black marble.