Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Google Maps and NASA invite you to peer into the Black Marble

Google lets you explore the earth after dark

If you've had your fill of that Black Marble animation from last week, how's about a more interactive jaunt around the globe? Google has now joined hands with NASA and NOAA to use stunning imagery of an illuminated, cloud-free Earth captured by the Suomi NPP satellite and put a map of the sleeping world right under your fingertips. The data was collected over 312 passes by the satellite using a new ultra high-sensitivity sensor dubbed the "day-night band of the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite", and then mapped over existing "Blue Marble" pictures. If you think a nocturnal orbit around our home planet beats having a gander at faraway nebulas, but you can't quite afford a boarding pass, then a jump to the source link is most definitely in order.

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Via: Techcrunch

Source: Google Maps, Google Plus

Source: http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/7UDo2FCtC_M/

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