As a proof i can put two official pictures of earth side by side in this post.
Why does usa look bigger blue marble.
A global composite image constructed using cloud free night images from a new nasa and national oceanic and atmospheric administration noaa satellite shows the glow of natural and human built phenomena across the planet in greater detail than ever before.
From space earth looks like a blue marble with white swirls.
Take a look at these five marble look tiles and we ll have you looking twice.
And the white parts are ice and snow.
Scientists unveiled today an unprecedented new look at our planet at night.
The white swirls are clouds.
Next generation offers a year s worth of.
Water covers most of earth.
Marble is one of the oldest and most beautiful stones available on the market for countertops.
Imagine having that pure beauty in your home in the form of a marble countertop backsplash or vanity.
Next generation offers greater spatial detail of the surface and spans a longer data collection period than the original.
It was taken by the crew of the apollo 17 spacecraft on its way to the moon and is one of the most reproduced images in history.
In the nasa archive its formal designation is as17 148 22727 but it s commonly known as the blue marble shot and forty years later we still aren t sure who actually took it.
In its pure form marble is a white stone with a crystalline and sugary appearance consisting of calcium carbonate caco 3 usually marble contains other minerals including quartz graphite pyrite and iron oxides these minerals can give marble a pink brown gray green or variegated coloration.
Marble is a metamorphic rock formed when limestone is subjected to high pressure or heat.
It s a metamorphic stone that is a result of limestone being subjected to immense amount of pressure for long periods of time.
This was the first time the apollo trajectory.
Some parts are brown yellow green and white.
It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica.
It s because they are not photos but computer generated images cgi done by artists or graphic designers.
Look at the continents they are different size.
The brown yellow and green parts are land.
The blue marble is an image of earth taken on december 7 1972 from a distance of about 29 000 kilometers 18 000 miles from the planet s surface.
This space features carrara porcelain from the pietra.
The original blue marble was a composite of four months of modis observations with a spatial resolution level of detail of 1 square kilometer per pixel.
In addition because it is a natural stone each marble slab is unique even slabs that come from the same quarry.
Marble s popularity began in ancient rome and greece where white and off white marble was used to construct a variety of structures from hand held sculptures to massive.
The blue part is water.
What does earth look like.