Nasa Earth Texture Map
Published june 19 2012.
Nasa earth texture map. Nasa jet propulsion laboratory solar system simulator. The earth is a complex planet to render. In this remotely sensed image urban areas everywhere are exaggerated in extent and glow as brightly as las vegas which make for eye catching night scenes. Nasa recently released some new texture maps and a reworked bump map set of the moon.
There are vast areas of open water which are both specular and reflective. Nasa gov brings you the latest images videos and news from america s space agency. Get the latest updates on nasa missions watch nasa tv live and learn about our quest to reveal the unknown and benefit all humankind. This maneuver known as an earth gravity assist will put osiris rex on course to visit asteroid bennu where it will collect a sample of some of the oldest material in the solar system.
Over a period of six orbits on on february 3 2012 the recently launched suomi npp satellite provided the viirs instrument enough time to gather the pixels for this synthesized view of earth showing north africa and southwestern europe. This fall nasa s asteroid hunting spacecraft osiris rex will fly by earth and use the planet s gravitational force to slingshot itself out into space. The base image for earth at night texture map 5 above is a darkened and desaturated version of texture map 2. There are large land areas of varying color and it can be difficult to find a suitable texture map in the public domain.
North africa and europe from suomi npp. 3d resources web application. Earth texture map high resolution page.