Rotating Cloudy Galileo Transitions to Blue Marble View

  • Released Thursday, October 8th, 2009
  • Updated Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023 at 1:54PM
  • ID: 3640

The MODIS instruments on the Terra and Aqua satellites take multi-spectral images of the Earth daily. This realistic, cloudy Earth is a composite of MODIS imagery from March 3, 2009. This animation reveals a transition from the MODIS view of Earth to the Blue Marble image, to allow a look at the planet without clouds. 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 rotating globe with a cloudy, realistic MODIS data set that transitions to the Blue Marble data set.

An image of the MODIS view of Earth.

An image of the MODIS view of Earth.

An image of the Blue Marble Earth.

An image of the Blue Marble Earth.

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