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.
Blue marble night.
Night lights imagery by noaa s earth observation group privacy policy.
Night lights 2012 the black marble.
Put together from about 10 000 satellite scenes each file over 300 mb collected over 100 days 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.
Published december 6 2012.
Blue marble the most detailed true color image of the earth s surface ever produced.
It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica.
No matter where you install it blue night granite will look terrific.
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.
This was the first time the apollo trajectory.
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