Blue Marble 2007

2007 blue marble awards i am very pleased to announce the recipients of the 2007 nasa environment and energy awards the blue marble awards.

Blue marble 2007.

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. Next generation offers a year s worth of. Nasa goddard space flight center reto stöckli. It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica.

This composite image uses a number of swaths of the earth s surface taken on january 4 2012. Blue marble 2002 source. Fewer people know that nasa also studies earth. This amazingly beautiful view of earth from space is a fusion of science and art a showcase for.

View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew astronaut eugene a. October 9 2007. Nasa headquarters emd is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2008 blue marble award for environmental and energy excellence demonstrated during fiscal year 2007. Nasa s earth observatory published.

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. October 9 2007. The next generation blue marble everyone knows that nasa studies space. Nasa blue marble 2007 west release date.

This amazingly beautiful view of earth from space is a fusion of science and art a showcase for. Schmitt lunar module pilot traveling toward the moon. This was the first time the apollo trajectory. These awards recognize nasa civil service employees and contractor personnel who demonstrate environmental leadership while carrying out nasa s primary mission.

April 4 2018 in 2002 nasa scientists and visualizers stitched together strips of brand new data in natural color collected over four months from the moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer or modis instrument aboard terra. Next generation offers greater spatial detail of the surface and spans a longer data collection period than the original. 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.

The shape and texture of the land. City lights as a beacon of human presence across the globe. 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. City lights as a beacon of human presence across the globe.

The shape and texture of the land. Evans command module pilot. Nasa blue marble 2007 east release date. A blue marble image of the earth taken from the viirs instrument aboard nasa s most recently launched earth observing satellite suomi npp.

There ceremony was held on september 22 2008 in newport news virginia.