Earth the blue marble.
Blue marble nasa images of earth.
This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date.
Recalling the famous apollo era pictures of earth taken by lunar astronauts this digital image is a spectacular portrait of the western hemisphere at the time of one of the strongest hurricanes ever observed in the eastern pacific.
In sharing these blue marble images nasa hopes the public will join with the agency in its continuing exploration of our world from the unique perspective of space.
And scientist astronaut harrison h.
View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew astronaut eugene a.
This was the first time the apollo trajectory.
It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica.
The npp satellite was renamed suomi npp on january 24 2012 to honor the late verner e.
Evans command module pilot.
A blue marble image of the earth taken from the viirs instrument aboard nasa s most recently launched earth observing satellite suomi npp.
Schmitt lunar module pilot traveling toward the moon.
This composite image uses a number of swaths of the earth s surface taken on january 4 2012.
To learn more about the development of nasa s imagery of the earth as a whole read the history of the blue marble.
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.