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Blue Marble: Next Generation offers a years worth of monthly composites at a spatial resolution of 500 meters. These monthly images reveal seasonal changes to the land surface: the green-up and dying-back of vegetation in temperate regions such as North America and Europe, dry and wet seasons in the tropics, and advancing and retreating Northern Hemisphere snow cover.

This version of the maps includes shading for topography and bathymetry.

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January

Blue Marble: Next Generation w/ Topography and Bathymetry, January

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February

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March

Blue Marble: Next Generation w/ Topography and Bathymetry, March

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April

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May

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June

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July

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August

August

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September

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October

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November

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December

Blue Marble: Next Generation w/ Topography and Bathymetry, December

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