Rotating Blue Marble Globe

  • Released Wednesday, March 19, 2003
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The Terra/MODIS project has released a beautiful set of Blue Marble imagery. The data is place on a globe and rotated.

A 24 second rotation of the MODIS BlueMarble imagery

Video slate image reads "Rotating Blue Marble GlobeTerra/MODIS".

Video slate image reads "Rotating Blue Marble Globe

Terra/MODIS".

Credits

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. The Blue Marble data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC).

This page was originally published on Wednesday, March 19, 2003.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:57 PM EDT.

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Datasets used in this visualization

  • Blue Marble [Terra: MODIS]

    ID: 492
    Sensor: MODIS Dates used: 2002/01, 2001/07/29

    Credit: The Blue Marble data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC).

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