Black Marble Nasa 2017

Released on april 25 2017.

Black marble nasa 2017.

This image is one of several global images of the earth at night released in 2017. View from the iss at night shows the beauty of. Scientists at nasa are working to automate nighttime viirs data processing so that data users are able to view nighttime imagery within hours of acquisition which could lead to other potential uses by research meteorological and civic groups. By removing natural and stray light sources researchers have provided a clearer picture of the human footprint on earth and opened up new opportunities in disaster response demographics and applied research.

Full 360 animated rotation in high definition resolution 1920x1080 1080p mov 49 3 mb. Nasa has developed the black marble a daily calibrated corrected and validated product suite so nightlight data can be used effectively for scientific observations. Nasa has dubbed the new image black marble a play off the original blue marble of earth taken by the apollo 17 crew on december 7 1972. Night light maps open up new applications.