This image shows south america from september 2004.
High resolution blue marble.
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.
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.
Night lights 2012 the black marble.
Nasa has just published what it calls the most amazing highest resolution image of earth ever dubbed blue marble the 64 megapixel image weighing in at 8000 8000 pixels is actually a composite photograph taken on january 4th of this year using a number of captures stitched together from nasa s earth observing satellite suomi npp.
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 npp satellite was renamed suomi npp on january 24 2012 to honor the late verner e.
Make sure to see this sucker full size to really.
It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica.
This composite image uses a number of swaths of the earth s surface taken on january 4 2012.
A blue marble image of the earth taken from the viirs instrument aboard nasa s most recently launched earth observing satellite suomi npp.
Published december 6 2012.
Next generation is a series of images that show the color of the earth s surface for each month of 2004 at very high resolution 500 meters pixel at a global scale.