Some cool earth image images:
Earth - Illustration
Image by DonkeyHotey
The earth cropped from space against a white background.
The source image for this illustration of planet earth is from the US Government. The original image was created by Reto Stöckli, Nazmi El Saleous, and Marit Jentoft-Nilsen, NASA GSFC and is available via the Earth Observatory which is part of the EOS Project Science Office located at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
Earth at Night, Europe [hd video]
Image by NASA Goddard Photo and Video
Unprecedented New Look at Our Planet at Night
In daylight our big blue marble is all land, oceans and clouds. But the night - is electric.
This view of Earth at night is a cloud-free view from space as acquired by the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership Satellite (Suomi NPP). A joint program by NASA and NOAA, Suomi NPP captured this nighttime image by the satellite's Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS). The day-night band on VIIRS detects light in a range of wavelengths from green to near infrared and uses filtering techniques to observe signals such as city lights, gas flares, and wildfires. This new image is a composite of data acquired over nine days in April and thirteen days in October 2012. It took 312 satellite orbits and 2.5 terabytes of data to get a clear shot of every parcel of land surface.
This video uses the Earth at night view created by NASA's Earth Observatory with data processed by NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center and combined with a version of the Earth Observatory's Blue Marble: Next Generation.
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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio / Earth Observatory
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Earth Day
Image by Kevin Baird
A standard iPhone wallpaper of the Blue Marble image. It's already in your iPhone, but if you want it, here it is.
