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.
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This image shows south america from september 2004.
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.
It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica.
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The minivan size spacecraft is the first of.
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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.
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This translunar coast photograph extends from the mediterranean sea area to the antarctica south polar ice cap.
The most familiar pictures of the entire earth are from the 1960s and.
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.
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This was the first time the apollo trajectory.
Night lights 2012 the black marble.
But the story behind the much admired image that introduced the world to the iphone known as the blue marble is.
And scientist astronaut harrison h.
The new earth photos which nasa scientists have dubbed blue marble views come from the suomi national polar orbiting partnership npp satellite.
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Data visualizer and designer robert simmon never thought that he would become mr.
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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.
That was the last of the apollo moon missions but nasa s space probes continued to take.
Schmitt lunar module pilot traveling toward the moon.
View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew astronaut eugene a.