Dec 10, 2003
The Blue Marble
The NASA Earth Observatory’s mission is “to provide a freely-accessible publication on the Internet where the public can obtain new satellite imagery and scientific information about our home planet.”
Amongst the wealth of information found on the NEO site, the Blue Marble “is the most detailed true-color image of the entire Earth to date. 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.”
Detail | View the Blue Marble (in various media formats)
2 Comments, Comment or Ping
gartop
Nice! I would have loved to own a marble that looked like that when I was a kid.
Would have blown away all the other generic marbles… ie.. red, blue, yellow, etc.
Although, the swirled marbles were great looking.
Dec 10th, 2003
Dad
Nice…very interesting! Hey, did you see Matt looking up from Boot and fliping us off?
:-)
Dec 10th, 2003
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