The Blue Marble Project

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.

The blue marble project.

Evans command module pilot. This was the first time the apollo trajectory made it possible to photograph the south polar ice cap despite the southern hemisphere being heavily covered in clouds. In honor of carl sagan s pale blue dot we at homeland solar proudly take part in the blue marble project. The blue marble is an image of earth taken on december 7 1972 from a distance of about 29 000 kilometers from the planet s surface.

It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica. This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date. 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. 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.

You are not a drop in the ocean you are the entire ocean in a drop. Nichols has shared blue marbles around the world with millions of people in celebration of our beautiful fragile planet. Schmitt lunar module pilot traveling toward the moon. This translunar coast photograph extends from the mediterranean sea area to the antarctica south polar ice cap.

The name comes from the famous image of the earth taken on the apollo 17 expedition in 1972 in which many have noted that the earth looks like a little blue marble. Like the original the blue marble. Born one day in 2009 the wildly popular absurdly simple neuroscience based initiative of marine biologist dr. Also like its predecessor the new blue marble is available free of charge to educators scientists museums businesses and the public.

The blue marble project it is one of the most famous pictures known an image of our planet earth taken on december 7 1972 by the astronauts of apollo 17 approximately 18 000 miles away on their voyage to the moon. Next generation improves the techniques for turning satellite data into digital images. Among the key improvements is greater detail in areas that usually appear very dark to the satellite because a large amount of sunlight is being absorbed for example in dense tropical forests. View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew astronaut eugene a.

Now the blue marbles project has set out to pass a blue marble through every person s hand on earth with a simple message of gratitude along with it. The project is an ongoing environmental and social outreach campaign that seeks to reconnect people to our water planet through the science of gratitude. The blue marbles project has set out to pass a blue marble through every person s hand on earth with a simple message of gratitude along with it.