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Enhancements by Robert Simmon ocean color, compositing, 3D globes, animation. Published February 8, Data acquired February 8, Related images: x JPEG. Night Lights - The Black Marble. Night Lights - The Black Marble Published December 6, This animated globe shows the city lights of the world as they appeared to the new Suomi NPP satellite, which has at least 10 times better light-resolving power than previous night-viewing satellites.

City Lights of Asia and Australia. City Lights of Asia and Australia Published November 28, A sensitive new sensor allows a clearer view of dim night lights on Earth. Still, those earliest images showed that a yet-unproven method of observing the Earth from space would help improve weather forecasts.

Astronaut photographs taken during the Apollo missions provided full-color images of Earth, and fostered a greater awareness of the need to understand our home planet. In , from a distance of about 45, km 28, mi , the crew of Apollo 17 took one of the most famous photographs ever made of the Earth. This original 'Blue Marble' inspired later images of the Earth compiled from satellite data. In October , the creators of the Blue Marble released a new version of the spectacular image collection that provides a full year's worth of monthly observations with twice the level of detail as the original.

The new collection is called the Blue Marble: Next Generation. Also like its predecessor, the new Blue Marble is available free of charge to educators, scientists, museums, businesses, and the public. The collection includes images that are sized for different media, including Web and print.

Users can download images of the entire globe, or just selected regions of interest. To view several historical looks at Earth, please see the image gallery located below. Enhancements Blue Marble: Next Generation offers greater spatial detail of the surface and spans a longer data collection period than the original.

The shading is true color with the oceans shades of blue, the clouds white and the lands varying from green to brown. The brown areas are the sands of the deserts. The shading of the land was done using a dataset compiled by the U. Additional Blue Marble datasets are available to highlight some of the characteristics of the changing Earth. The standard Blue Marble is a year long composite to show an average view of the earth. The Blue Marble without clouds is also available in monthly composites the entire year.

This monthly evolution is the seasonal blue marble.