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•  Info created by NASA, uploaded by Meow, nominated by Yann
•  Info Satellite image by NASA’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, or MODIS. This spectacular “blue marble” image is the most detailed true-color image of the entire Earth to date. Using a collection of satellite-based observations, scientists and visualizers stitched together months of observations of the land surface, oceans, and sea ice into a seamless, true-color mosaic of every square kilometer (.386 square mile) of our planet. These images are freely available to educators, scientists, museums, and the public.

Much of the information contained in this image came from a single remote-sensing device-NASA’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, or MODIS. Flying over 700 km above the Earth onboard the Terra satellite, MODIS provides an integrated tool for observing a variety of terrestrial, oceanic, and atmospheric features of the Earth. The land and coastal ocean portions of these images are based on surface observations collected from June through September 2001 and combined, or composited, every eight days to compensate for clouds that might block the sensor’s view of the surface on any single day.

Two different types of ocean data were used in these images: shallow water true color data, and global ocean color (or chlorophyll) data. Topographic shading is based on the GTOPO 30 elevation dataset compiled by the U.S. Geological Survey’s EROS Data Center. MODIS observations of polar sea ice were combined with observations of Antarctica made by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s AVHRR sensor—the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer.

•  Info Smaller versions are available.
•  Support The most detailed true-color image of the entire Earth to date. Very high resolution. Already FP on the English Wikipedia. There is also a JPEG version, but the thumbnail is broken. -- Yann (talk) 11:26, 27 September 2023 (UTC)
•  Weak support I can't see the full image, but on the smaller version, there's some light blue spots at the north of Cuba. - ABAL1412^{🇻🇳🇸🇺🇷🇺} (talk ☭) 14:56, 27 September 2023 (UTC)

  @ABAL1412: Light blue indicates that the sea is low-lying – in this case, it's The (or the?) Bahamas. --SHB2000 (talk) 03:56, 29 September 2023 (UTC)

  @SHB2000 I've just searched it up on Google Maps. It's Bahamas, a country. And it's an island, not sea. - ABAL1412^{🇻🇳🇸🇺🇷🇺} (talk ☭) 06:02, 29 September 2023 (UTC)

  Sorry, I mistyped sea instead of island. I'm well aware of The Bahamas (was only 200 km away from the closest point of the country in 2019) – it's an archipelago comprised of several low-lying islands, somewhat like the Maldives. --SHB2000 (talk) 06:11, 29 September 2023 (UTC)

•  Comment Doesn't open on zoomviewer. Charlesjsharp (talk) 20:08, 27 September 2023 (UTC)

• ZoomViewer is broken for big files for at least 2 months. See phab:T343796 and phab:T307787. Yann (talk) 00:33, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

•  Oppose If I can't look at it, I can't support it. If the zoom viewer is broken, you need to note that on file description. Charlesjsharp (talk) 10:46, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

• Oppose because of broken ZommViewer, and inability to see the whole map with a browser are really bad faith (not surprising from CJS). This version is obviously not meant to be used that way. I submitted a bug report when I found the issue with ZommViewer, and I can't do anything about it. Yann (talk) 12:57, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

• If you cannot offer a way for us to examine the file, then why nominate it? And cut out the snide comments, Yann. Charlesjsharp (talk) 16:22, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

• You can examine the file very well in downloading it, that's easy. And you can look at the smaller versions mentioned in the file description. It is quite a habit by you to oppose for nonsense and bad faith reasons. Yann (talk) 17:05, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

• You continue to be provocative and rude. To suggest I should have to download your nomination to judge it is a nonsense comment. If you want to see bad faith - just look in a mirror. Charlesjsharp (talk) 20:07, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

  Look, I'm not saying that Yann is always in the green, but you've turned down several of my maps for QI for nonexistential (edit 10:12 Sep 30 UTC: struck through – handled on my talk page) reasons before (your unwillingness to be disproven also doesn't help) and although this isn't my map nor nomination, this seems to be another case of "I don't want to admit I'm in the wrong" – if that isn't bad faith as Yann puts it, I don't know what is. --SHB2000 (talk) 09:48, 29 September 2023 (UTC)

•  Oppose A World map should show evidence of human activities like cities. It is nothing like the 'blue marble' image and it is not 'true color'. It has no legend and no mention of the projection used. Where is the Polar ice cap? Charlesjsharp (talk) 17:39, 30 September 2023 (UTC)

•  Weak support I don't like how FJ is cut off, but I guess it was deliberately cut off at the 180° line. --SHB2000 (talk) 10:48, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
•  Disapprove Was this 21 years ago, huh? Earth appears much dryer today, but I feel like the quality is lacking. 20 upper 11:46, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

• "Earth appears much dryer today" Do you have source for that? Yann (talk) 12:57, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

  @Yann: Read this article 20 upper 16:36, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

  Also this ones:1, 2, and 3 20 upper 16:43, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

• Thanks, that's interesting. It would certainly be useful to have a similar image today. Any image is a snapshot of something at a particular time. This is still the most detailed true-color image of the entire Earth to date. Yann (talk) 17:09, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

•  Support Per Yann and ABAL; also the light blue spots north of Cuba are just Islands with shallow seas around them, I believe. --UnpetitproleX (Talk) 19:46, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

  Actually, the whole Bahamas is in blue. - ABAL1412^{🇻🇳🇸🇺🇷🇺} (talk ☭) 06:04, 29 September 2023 (UTC)

  Yes, the Bahamas is surrounded by shallow sea. See also, for example, the area between southern India and Sri Lanka, the area near southern Sumatra, the area between northern Australia and Papua New Guinea etc., where the sea is shallow as well and thus also appears turquoise. UnpetitproleX (Talk) 11:00, 29 September 2023 (UTC)

•  Support --RodRabelo7 (talk) 23:45, 29 September 2023 (UTC)
•  Support ★ 23:59, 29 September 2023 (UTC)
•  Support --MZaplotnik^(talk) 09:41, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
•  Support --Aristeas (talk) 09:57, 4 October 2023 (UTC)
•  Support if only for historic reasons --El Grafo (talk) 14:28, 4 October 2023 (UTC)
•  Question I downloaded this image to be able to view it. I looked at a couple of screens worth at a high resolution, and it mostly looks great so far, but why are there orange and blue/gray stripes on Antarctica? -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 22:46, 4 October 2023 (UTC)

I don't know why it looks like that, but it is mentioned that Antarctica was made by a different process. Yann (talk) 07:34, 5 October 2023 (UTC)

•  Support--Princess 🍵 Rosalina 34899 03:36, 6 October 2023 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 10 support, 2 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /-- Radomianin (talk) 13:49, 6 October 2023 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Places/Satellite images#Others