The Home Earth
In the early 1990's, Sara Tweedie designed a very popular poster based on this visualization by Dave Pape. The poster depicted a very large version of this image with the word 'Earth' above the image and the phrase 'There's no place like home' below it. There was a rumor that the posters were offered for sale by the Tennessee Valley Authority at one point.

An image of the Earth derived from AVHRR and topographic data.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio
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Animator
- Dave Pape (NASA)
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Scientist
- Jim Strong (NASA/GSFC)
Release date
This page was originally published on Saturday, January 1, 1994.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 2:00 PM EDT.
Datasets used
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[NOAA: AVHRR]
ID: 74 -
1-Degree DEM
ID: 410
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