Rotating Blue Marble
The Blue Marble Next Generation (BMNG) data set provides a monthly global cloud-free true-color picture of the Earth's landcover at a 500-meter spatial resolution. This data set, shown on a globe, is derived from monthly data collected in 2004. The ocean color is derived from applying a depth shading to the bathymetry data. The Antarctica coverage shown is the Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica.
This animation depicts a 360 degree rotation of a globe with the Blue Marble data set.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
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Animators
- Adam Martin (UMBC)
- Horace Mitchell (NASA/GSFC)
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Narrator
- Troy Cline (Raytheon/GSFC)
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Producer
- Maria Frostic (UMBC)
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Scientists
- Gene Feldman (NASA/GSFC)
- Michael Behrenfeld (Oregon State University)
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Writer
- Maria Frostic (UMBC)
Release date
This page was originally published on Thursday, October 8, 2009.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:54 PM EDT.
Missions
This visualization is related to the following missions:Series
This visualization can be found in the following series:Datasets used in this visualization
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Blue Marble [Aqua: MODIS]
ID: 252Credit: The Blue Marble data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC).
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Blue Marble Cloud Cover [Terra and Aqua: MODIS]
ID: 509Credit: The Blue Marble data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC).
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True Color (Band Combination 1, 4, 3) [Terra and Aqua: MODIS]
ID: 649 -
Sea Surface Temperature-Net Primary Productivity Correlation
ID: 656Behrenfeld at. al., Nature 444, 752-755 (7 December 2006)
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