https://gisgeography.com/satellite-image-of-earth-blue-marble/ Geographic Information Systems Sun, 19 Nov 2023 01:57:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://gisgeography.com/satellite-image-of-earth-blue-marble/#comment-267539 Wed, 08 Jun 2022 14:06:14 +0000 https://gisgeography.com/?p=69158#comment-267539 The most eminent feature of the “Blue Marble” photo, the image uniformity, is not discussed in the literature, not even mentioned. The earth’s image includes large areas of gas-phase – clouds, liquid-phase – oceans, and solid-phase – land, and the uniformity is nearly true for each phase separately. This feature is not compatible with Lambert’s cosine law. One photo – a thousand theories.

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