Blue Marble Night Lights 2015

Nasa s blue marble pictures of earth show each month of the year 2004 to illustrate changes in snow cover and vegetation.

Blue marble night lights 2015.

Blue marble was initially created by nasa s goddard space flight center the night lights by noaa s. 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. Map of 2015 high dynamic range grey scale recently the earth observation group at ngdc which also provided the data underlying the above mentioned nasa picture has published grey scale maps of night lights.

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. It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica. Night lights imagery by noaa s earth observation group privacy policy. Night lights imagery by noaa s earth observation group privacy policy.

Compared with the 2012 image there are also a few blurred areas probably due to cloud cover during the periods the data was captured. 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.