Blue Marble Nasa 2002

The npp satellite was renamed suomi npp on january 24 2012 to honor the late verner e.

Blue marble nasa 2002.

Next generation improves the techniques for turning satellite data into digital images. Terra modis collection. Next generation offers a year s worth of. This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date.

Much of the information contained in this image came from a single remote sensing device nasa s moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer. Click on the image to view a larger version of this image. The blue marble next generation shows incredible detail of the earth. We translate data into a useable and understandable form.

A blue marble image of the earth taken from the viirs instrument aboard nasa s most recently launched earth observing satellite suomi npp. Deep space climate observatory dscovr. Flying over 700 km above the earth onboard the terra satellite modis provides an integrated tool for observing a variety of terrestrial oceanic and. Our writers and visualizers explain what we are seeing and our web developers tell the world.

Nasa goddard space flight center image by reto stöckli land surface shallow water clouds. Next generation offers greater spatial detail of the surface and spans a longer data collection period than the original. On july 21 2015 nasa released a new blue marble photograph taken by a u s. One picture per month.

This composite image uses a number of swaths of the earth s surface taken on january 4 2012. Image of the blue marble 2002 much of the information contained in this image came from a single remote sensing device nasa s moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer or modis. This image from nasa s dawn mission shows the topography of the northern and southern hemispheres of the giant asteroid vesta updated with pictures obtained during dawn s last look back. Enhancements by robert simmon ocean color compositing 3d globes animation.

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 first television image of the earth from space taken by the television infrared observation satellite tiros 1 on april 1 1960. 2002 data acquired february 8 2002.