Pictures of the Earth at night taken from space show the lights of small towns connecting to bigger and more populated cities. So, what can you see in the Black Marble? Well, it is more than you might think. What does the Earth from space at night look like? NASA has coined it the Black Marble. They watched the Earth from space during the day and night. However, astronauts and satellites did not just observe the Earth illuminated by the sun, they orbited the Earth 16 times during a 24-hour period. With water covering more than 70% of the Earth’s surface, this name is obvious.
Many have described the Earth from space as a blue marble. I felt very, very small.” The Black Marble I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. Upon seeing the Earth from the surface of the moon he commented, “It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. Just seven months after the first pictures of the Earth from space arrived, Neil Armstrong landed on the moon (our Moon Globe is pictured above) as part of the Apollo 11 mission. It causes a shift in their view of war and of how fragile the Earth is. Scientists call the sense of awareness one feels when seeing the Earth from space the “overview effect.” Named for the overview look one has on the Earth from space. Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders said it best, “We came all this way to explore the Moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth.”
The astronauts aboard the capsule brought back pictures of the Earth from space that were before only ever imagined, the essence of which is captured in our Earth with Clouds Globe (pictured above). The Apollo 8 mission forever changed our view of Earth. Designed with over 400 NASA images, MOVA has captured this one-of-a-kind image in our most recent globe, The Earth at Night (pictured above). However, only a privileged few have had the vantage point of Earth from space, at night, with tiny pinpoints, long strings, and giant clusters of light glowing upwards into space, sprinkled among immense expanses of shades of dark. Countless nights are spent looking up into the sky: gazing at constellations, wishing upon shooting stars, catching the arc of the International Space Station, observing a lunar eclipse, or–from the darkest corners of the planet¬–glimpsing the edges of the Milky Way.
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