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)
Missions
This page is related to the following missions:Series
This page can be found in the following series:Datasets used
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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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Note: While we identify the data sets used on this page, we do not store any further details, nor the data sets themselves on our site.
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.