View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew astronaut eugene a.
The blue marble photo of earth.
The blue marble is a famous photograph of the earth taken on december 7 1972 by the crew of the apollo 17 spacecraft at a distance of about 45 000 kilometers 28 000 miles.
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.
Schmitt lunar module pilot traveling toward the moon.
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.
The npp satellite was renamed suomi npp on january 24 2012 to honor the late verner e.
View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew traveling toward the moon.
The blue marble is a famous photograph of the earth taken on december 7 1972 by the crew of the apollo 17 spacecraft en route to the moon at a distance of about 29 000 kilometers 18 000 miles.
A blue marble image of the earth taken from the viirs instrument aboard nasa s most recently launched earth observing satellite suomi npp.
Still riding the wave of public wonder of humans in space and.
This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date.
This composite image uses a number of swaths of the earth s surface taken on january 4 2012.
Later nasa chose photo number as17 148 22727 of this series to be titled as the blue marble.
Nasa crew of apollo 17.
This was the first time the apollo trajectory.
This is the first time the apollo trajectory made it possible to photograph the south polar ice cap.
Nasa s website gives us finer details of this photograph.
It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica.
And scientist astronaut harrison h.
This translunar coast photograph extends from the mediterranean sea area to the antarctica south polar ice cap.
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 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.
View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew traveling toward the moon.
This translunar coast photograph extends from the mediterranean sea area to the antarctica south polar ice cap.
The next generation blue marble everyone knows that nasa studies space.
Evans command module pilot.
Fewer people know that nasa also studies earth.