Blue Marble Navigator Dark Skies Map

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 navigator dark skies map.

Welcome to the improved darksitefinder light pollution map. Nasa s next generation blue marble imagery available here is a set of 12 monthly composite images of the entire earth using 500 meter resolution imagery from the modis satellite the blue marble navigator offers a convenient interface to view this imagery along with several other useful options. The map is easier to share since the url changes as you move around. I m still working out some of the bugs but i ll continue trying to find ways to improve the site.

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. Clicking near the edge of the picture moves the focus into the respective direction clicking on its center zooms in and back out thus switching between 4 and 0 5 gigapixel. The shown section is 720 600 by default but can be resized using the and buttons at the top. Display of a section of the 86400 43200 blue marble pictures that nasa derived from imagery taken in 2004.

This map is based on light pollution data updated in 2006 by david lorenz. Our work international dark sky places fixture seal of approval parks and protected areas sea turtle conservation education and outreach. Night lights imagery by noaa s earth observation group privacy policy. More info on the features of this site.

After selecting your initial location from a world map the main interface comes up. And don t forget to c heck out the globe at night interactive light pollution map data created with eight years of data collected by citizen scientists. Nasa blue marble navigator. Night lights imagery by noaa s earth observation group privacy policy.

Here are some useful links. Sortable dark site listing add a new dark site how to see the milky way how to see the aurora color scale meaning more astronomy links. Blue marble was initially created by nasa s goddard space flight center the night lights by noaa s national geophysical data center.