Earth ID: 2688

Apollo 17 30th Anniversary: Blue Marble Great Barrier Reef Fly-over

Visualizations by Alex Kekesi Released on January 23, 2003

In conjunction with the 30th Anniversary Apollo 17 mission, NASA put together a special release highlighting one of the most popular photos taken during that mission. The photo (#AS17-148-22727) was taken on Dec. 7, 1972 from the Apollo 17 command module. Over the years, many other satellites have taken imagery of Earth, including Terra/MODIS. This animation uses a global mosaic derived from Terra/MODIS and flies us over Australia's Great Barrier Reef to celebrate how far Earth science imagery has come since the days of Apollo 17.

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Beauty shot fly-over of Australia's Great Barrier Reef using the 'Blue Marble' earth mosaic. The purpose of this animation is to show how far earth science satellite imagery has come since the taking of the famed Apollo 17 photo".

Visualization Credits

Alex Kekesi (Global Science and Technology, Inc.): Lead Animator

Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio The Blue Marble Next Generation data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC) and NASA's Earth Observatory.

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Mission:
Terra

Data Used:

Terra and Aqua/MODIS/Blue Marble: Next Generation also referred to as: BMNG

1/1/2004 - 12/31/2004

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/

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

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This item is part of this series:
Apollo 17 30th Anniversary

Goddard TV Tape:
G2002-089

Keywords:
SVS >> Wonderglobe
NASA Science >> Earth