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.
Blue marble earth image.
The npp satellite was renamed suomi npp on january 24 2012 to honor the late verner e.
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.
This image shows south america from september 2004.
Evans command module pilot.
The blue marble this spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date.
View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew astronaut eugene a.
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.
The image is officially designated as as17 148 22727 by the nasa.
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.
It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica.
And scientist astronaut harrison h.