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The Blue Marble is a photograph of Earth taken on December 7, 1972, by either Ron Evans or Harrison Schmitt aboard the Apollo 17 spacecraft on its way to the Moon.Viewed from around 29,400 km (18,300 mi) from Earth's surface, [1] a cropped and rotated version has become one of the most reproduced images in history.
The Thwaites Glacier Tongue, or Western Glacier Tongue (75°0′S 106°50′W) was a narrow, floating part of the glacier, located about 30 mi (48 km) east of Mount Murphy. [28] It was the first part of the glacier to be mapped, [1] based on 65,000 aerial photographs collected during Operation Highjump in 1947. Back then, it was about 95 km (59 ...
The fractured berg and shelf are visible in this image acquired by the Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) on the Landsat 8 satellite on 21 July 2017 (Lighter = warmer). As of July 2017, Larsen C was the fourth largest ice shelf in Antarctica, with an area of about 44,200 km 2 (17,100 sq mi). [20]
Google Earth is a web and computer program that renders a 3D representation of Earth based primarily on satellite imagery. The program maps the Earth by superimposing satellite images, aerial photography, and GIS data onto a 3D globe, allowing users to see cities and landscapes from various angles.
The geography of Antarctica is dominated by its south polar location and, thus, by ice. The Antarctic continent, located in the Earth 's southern hemisphere, is centered asymmetrically around the South Pole and largely south of the Antarctic Circle. It is washed by the Southern (or Antarctic) Ocean or, depending on definition, the southern ...
True color image of the Earth from space. This image is a composite image collected over 16 days by the MODIS sensor on NASA’s Terra satellite. NASA Earth science satellite fleet as of September 2020, planned through 2023. Earth observation satellite missions developed by the ESA as of 2019. Earth observation satellites are Earth-orbiting ...
As four fires grew in Southern California, new satellite images show their scale and the amount of smoke pouring east. The Line, Bridge, Airport and Roblar fires, all of which began in the past ...
Antarctica (/ ænˈtɑːrktɪkə / ⓘ) [ note 1 ] is Earth 's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean (also known as the Antarctic Ocean), it contains the geographic South Pole.