Originally designed to view clouds by moonlight, the OLS is also used to map the locations of permanent lights on the Earth’s surface. This gorgeous image is the most up-to-date "blue marble ...

Earthrise shows a partial Earth, rising up from the moon's surface. In Blue Marble, the Earth appears in the center of the frame, floating in space. It is possible to clearly see the African ...

Blue Marble – January 2004. The Blue Marble images must be composites selected from days with minimal snow cover. Last week we showed you some Landsat imagery and noted how Google Earth is much ...

NPP's "Blue Marble," western hemisphere, data acquired from about 824km altitude It's a synthetic view; NPP flies too close to ever see this much of Earth at once. But there are spacecraft that do ...

A new video filmed from the second stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket high above Earth shows our planet as a beautiful blue marble intricately streaked with white clouds and patches of land.

Because it's in the public domain it has been used for everything from car commercials to the Earth Day flag ... but it's commonly known as The Blue Marble Shot, and forty years later we still ...

The Blue Marble photograph, taken by the Apollo 17 spacecraft on December 7, 1972, is an iconic and inspiring image. The photograph shows the Earth in all its beauty and majesty, with the deep ...

In December 1972, Nasa’s final Apollo mission (Apollo 17) took the iconic “Blue Marble” photo of the whole Earth. Many, including science fiction writer Arthur C Clarke, had expected that ...