Rotating Blue Marble Globe with Clouds

  • Released Wednesday, March 19, 2003
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The Terra/MODIS project has released a beautiful set of Blue Marble imagery. The data is place on a globe and rotated.

This is a 24-second full rotation of the Earth using the Blue Marble imagery.

Video slate image reads "Rotating Blue Marble and Cloud GlobeTerra/MODIS".

Video slate image reads "Rotating Blue Marble and Cloud Globe

Terra/MODIS".

Credits

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

This page was originally published on Wednesday, March 19, 2003.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:57 PM EDT.

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Datasets used

  • Blue Marble Cloud Cover [Terra: MODIS]

    ID: 494
    Sensor: MODIS Dates used: 2002/01, 2001/07/29

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

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