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This spectacular “blue marble” image is the most detailed true-color image of the entire Earth to date.* Using a collection of satellite-based observations, scientists and visualizers stitched together months of observations of the land surface, oceans, sea ice, and clouds into a seamless, true-color mosaic of every square kilometer (.386 square mile) of our planet.

These images are freely available to educators, scientists, museums, and the public. Much of the information contained in this image came from a single remote-sensing device-NASA’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, or MODIS.

*JUST RELEASED:

On February 1, 2012, NASA released ”Blue Marble 2012,” a view of the home planet that the agency calls the “most amazing high definition image of Earth.” This composite image is made from data collected by the Suomi NPP satellite.

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