“Blue Marble” true-color image of Earth taken from a single remote-sensing device-NASA’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, or MODIS.
Image 202256 is a 600 by 600 pixel WebP
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Sep5 19
Last Modified: 2019-09-05 14:42:43
Permanent URL: https://serc.carleton.edu/download/images/202256/nasas_blue_marble_true_color_image_.webp
Provenance
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Image by Reto Stöckli (land surface, shallow water, clouds). Enhancements by Robert Simmon (ocean color, compositing, 3D globes, animation). Data and technical support: MODIS Land Group; MODIS Science Data Support Team; MODIS Atmosphere Group; MODIS Ocean Group Additional data: USGS EROS Data Center (topography); USGS Terrestrial Remote Sensing Flagstaff Field Center (Antarctica); Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (city lights).
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