Blue Marble Map Download

The next generation blue marble everyone knows that nasa studies space.

Blue marble map download.

Next generation offers a year s worth of. Nasa s blue marble pictures of earth show each month of the year 2004 to illustrate changes in snow cover and vegetation. Published december 6 2012. This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date.

Developed for both gis professionals and map enthusiasts global mapper has all the functionality you need in a gis software for a fraction of comparable products. 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. Here you can browse their maximum resolution of four pixels per km as well as a slightly coarser night lights map enhanced by town names and national borders. Blue marble was initially created by nasa s goddard space flight center the night lights by noaa s.

Using a collection of satellite based observations scientists and visualizers stitched together months of observations of the land surface oceans sea ice and clouds into a seamless true color mosaic of every square kilometer 386 square mile of our planet. Next generation offers greater spatial detail of the surface and spans a longer data collection period than the original. Night lights 2012 the black marble. Using a collection of satellite based observations scientists and visualizers stitched together months of observations of the land surface oceans sea ice and clouds into a seamless true color mosaic of every square kilometer 386.

Using data from the moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer modis aboard nasa s terra satellite scientists and data visualizers stitched together a full year s worth of monthly observations of the land surface coastal oceans sea ice and clouds into. This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date. 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. Download gis software by blue marble geographics including global mapper geographic calculator and geographic tracker.