The Blue Marble Nasa 2015

On july 21 2015 nasa released a new blue marble photograph taken by a u s.

The blue marble nasa 2015.

This site is maintained by the planetary science communications team at nasa s jet propulsion laboratory for nasa s science mission. 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. And scientist astronaut harrison h. While it might seem simple it is actually a rather complex process.

Evans command module pilot. The blue marble october 2015. The blue marble this spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date. 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.

This blue marble is the first fully illuminated snapshot of the earth captured by the dscovr satellite a joint nasa noaa and u s. Taken by nasa s dawn spacecraft. The blue marble published. This translunar coast photograph extends from the mediterranean sea area to the antarctica south polar ice cap.

Schmitt lunar module pilot traveling toward the moon. 19 2015 at an approximate altitude of 240 miles 385 kilometers above. 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.

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. Dawn took this image on dec. 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. The image was taken on july 6 2015.

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. As mark twain once said distance lends enchantment to the view. 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. Dawn lamo image 8.

Like the original the blue marble. Fifty years ago on april 22 1970 people around the world marked the first earth day.