That’s one big marble!

NASA released a new version of their "Blue Marble" whole Earth image. Blue Marble is their name for the stitched, cloud-free imagery they've gleaned from MODIS. They've done this before, but the new version (called Blue Earth: Next Generation -- original, I know) has better resolution (0.5 km vs 1 km) and more temporal data (12 months instead of 4 3-month intervals). The file sizes are huge, but they look great. Take a look!

Comments

[Ken-ichi]

You know, I came here to post this, but I should have known you'd beat me to a Slashdot repost. Victory is yours, sir.

[Maggi]

Tim, well done. And thanks for your LiDAR presentation. Can we convince Ken-ichi to use the image of Dave as the new banner for the blog? seems appropriate after all, since he said it. If we can get Dave to agree.