Visuals of city lights were gathered over nine months and superimposed. Photos were taken every eight days to avoid cloud images that may block the sensors. Image Credit: Reto Stockli with the help of Alan Nelson, under the leadership of Fritz HaslerĬollected from June to September of 2001, this image integrates various land, ocean, and atmospheric readings almost entirely gathered by MODIS. The moon in the image is an artistic conceit, created from a 1994 photo swollen to twice its relative size. The completed computer file for this portrait was 26 MB, making it one of the largest ever taken by NASA at that time (though that’s only equivalent to less than 10 photos shot with an iPhone 4S).
That coloring data was draped over topographical models created by the U.S. While the base image was taken on September 9, 1997, vegetation and oceanic coloring was created using data collected throughout the fall of that year. Since NASA first released it, this image has become one of the most iconic, and recognizable pictures of the globe ever taken.Ģ5 years after the original Blue Marble, NASA compiled the latest in satellite images to create this anniversary portrait.
Taken on Decemaboard the Apollo 17 during its mission to the moon, this photograph was the first of its kind to successfully capture the southern ice cap. The crafted grace of these images is almost as impressive as the successive leaps in technology that enabled their creation. Scroll down to see the original 1972 Blue Marble followed by updated incarnations of the planetary portrait all the way to the latest picture just released. Unlike the original, Blue Marble 2012 was created through a composition of multiple images taken during four orbits on the Suomi NPP. The suspended sphere hanging in the night is a call back to the iconic image Blue Marble taken during the Apollo 17 mission to the moon 40 years earlier. Blue Marble 2012 is a gorgeous image of Earth taken from 512 miles above the surface using NASA’s Visible IR Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) aboard the Suomi NPP satellite. NASA recently released the first piece of celestial eye candy for the year, and it’s a whopper. If you want to see all the pretty parts of Earth, step into outer space. They were 80,000km and seven hours away from safety – this photo captures this stolen moment, yearning for home.If you want to see a pretty part of Earth, step outside. This ethereal photo (below), at first appears to show the Moon, but it is really the crescent Earth amidst the ghostly reflections of the Lunar Module. Two days in, the craft suffered a dramatic explosion, venting the contents of the Service Module’s oxygen tanks into space, leaving the Command Module without enough breathable air to get home. I chose it for the cover of my book The Precipice, which looks at humanity’s own fragility in these challenging times.Īnother one of my favourite photos is from Apollo 13. It was overlooked for years as the original negative was poorly exposed and washed out.īut as soon as I properly adjusted the levels, it took my breath away, revealing a haunting scene with an even more graceful and fragile view of the Earth and Moon than Apollo 8’s famous ‘Earthrise’ photo. It was captured by Richard Gordon as he circled the Moon alone in the Command Module, awaiting his companions’ return. One of my favourite hidden gems is the crescent earthrise from Apollo 12 (above). It was these lost images of Apollo that were the real rivals to the most well-known ones.Ī lesser-known crescent earthrise, captured during Apollo 12 on 19 November 1969.
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I hunted through all 18,000 Hasselblad photos from the Apollo missions for the best images that time forgot, and digitally restored them to bring out their full glory. So began a journey that would occupy my evenings over the next three years. Struck by the beauty of the most famous photographs, I wondered if there were more. And that jewel of Earth was just hung up in the blackness of space." Restoring the Apollo Earth photographs "Oceans were crystal blue, the land was brown, and the clouds and the snow were pure white. "I was able to look out the window to see this incredible sight of the whole circle of the Earth," said Apollo 16’s Charlie Duke. Instead, it is primarily a world of blue and white, with brown continents and just a suggestion of muted green in places of lush vegetation: If we look at this image from Apollo 16 (above), what we see isn’t the bright green and blue circle that has come to represent our planet. A remarkable view of Earth from Apollo 16, taken on 16 April 1972, reveals a world of blue and white with a hint of brown.
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