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Blue Marble 2002

View of the Earth from space
Source: NASA's Earth Observatory
Published: April 4, 2018

 In 2002, NASA scientists and visualizers stitched together strips of brand new data, in natural color, collected over four months from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, or MODIS, instrument aboard Terra.

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