Blue Marble Navigator Dark Skies Map

Night lights imagery by noaa s earth observation group privacy policy.

Blue marble navigator dark skies map. Next generation offers a year s worth of. Night lights imagery by noaa s earth observation group privacy policy. Sortable dark site listing add a new dark site how to see the milky way how to see the aurora color scale meaning more astronomy links. I m still working out some of the bugs but i ll continue trying to find ways to improve the site.

And don t forget to c heck out the globe at night interactive light pollution map data created with eight years of data collected by citizen scientists. After selecting your initial location from a world map the main interface comes up. Nasa s next generation blue marble imagery available here is a set of 12 monthly composite images of the entire earth using 500 meter resolution imagery from the modis satellite the blue marble navigator offers a convenient interface to view this imagery along with several other useful options. Our work international dark sky places fixture seal of approval parks and protected areas sea turtle conservation education and outreach.

The shown section is 720 600 by default but can be resized using the and buttons at the top. Here you can browse their maximum resolution of four pixels per km as well as a slightly coarser night lights map enhanced by town names and national borders. The map is easier to share since the url changes as you move around. The original blue marble was a composite of four months of modis observations with a spatial resolution level of detail of 1 square kilometer per pixel.

Next generation offers greater spatial detail of the surface and spans a longer data collection period than the original. More info on the features of this site. Welcome to the improved darksitefinder light pollution map. This map is based on light pollution data updated in 2006 by david lorenz.

Thank you to everyone who continued to visit despite the errors and thank you also to those who have submitted their favorite dark sites. Display of a section of the 86400 43200 blue marble pictures that nasa derived from imagery taken in 2004. Blue marble was initially created by nasa s goddard space flight center the night lights by noaa s national geophysical data center.