{"id":26140,"date":"2022-12-27T19:08:29","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T19:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/12\/27\/scientists-use-powerful-new-climate-model-to-recreate-iconic-blue-marble-photograph\/"},"modified":"2022-12-27T19:08:29","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T19:08:29","slug":"scientists-use-powerful-new-climate-model-to-recreate-iconic-blue-marble-photograph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/12\/27\/scientists-use-powerful-new-climate-model-to-recreate-iconic-blue-marble-photograph\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Use Powerful New Climate Model to Recreate Iconic ‘Blue Marble’ Photograph"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\n
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use<\/a>.<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

\n
\n\"\" <\/div>\n<\/div>\n

This month marks 50 years since humanity last ventured beyond low-Earth orbit. While NASA is currently working to send people back to the moon<\/a>, Apollo 17 in 1972 is the most recent crewed mission to leave Earth behind. The mission is notable for another reason: the famous \u201cBlue Marble\u201d photograph of Earth fully illuminated by the sun. This stunning image supercharged the nascent environmental movement in the early 1970s and has been reproduced frequently over the decades. Now, it\u2019s being reproduced in a new way \u2014 scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology attempted to recreate the Blue Marble shot from scratch using a new climate model. The results, as you can see above, are impressive. The simulation on the right is a dead ringer for the authentic photo on the left.<\/p>\n

You could argue that the foundation of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) was part of the environmental movement spurred on by the Blue Marble. MPI-M was set up under the direction of Prof. Klaus Hasselmann in 1975, who would go on to win the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics for MPI-M\u2019s work on anthropogenic climate change<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Work on the climate at MPI-M is still ongoing. In late 2022, the institute completed work on a model known as ICON that can simulate fully coupled climate systems at kilometer scale. Climate scientists believe that being able to resolve atmospheric processes at this level of detail is essential to understanding how global warming is reshaping the globe. With the 50-year anniversary of the iconic Blue Marble photo, the MPI-M team decided to test the model by recreating the image using weather data from 1972<\/a>.<\/p>\n