"Blue Marble" Earth

The ultra-large maps on this model allow for some pretty amazing close-up renders! I used the "replace color" tool in Photoshop to produce a custom color scheme for the night ground map.

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Credits:

Maps owned by NASA, and obtained from visibleearth.nasa.gov. One map obtained from mirrors.arsc.edu/nasa/landmask/. Night land map modified by William Chamberlin.

This model uses six maps:

Day Ground Map: Download Page. I used the "world.topo.200407. 3x21600x10800.jpg" under "Details and More Imagery."

Topo Map: Download Page (I used the 21600x10800 map).

Mask Map: Download Directory (I used the "world.watermask. 21600x10800" PNG map).

Cloud Map: Download Page (I used the "8192 x 4096 TIFF (34.2MB)" map).

Night Ground Map: Direct Link. The map is an edited version of a map found at this page.

City Lights Map: Direct Link. The map is a scaled-down version of a map found at this page (under "Details and More Imagery").

Download the Blender File Here