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Black Marble in Cesium

Kevin Ring

Yesterday, NASA Earth Observatory released a new, high-resolution view of the Earth at night, dubbed the Black Marble. It was straightforward to turn the approximately 400 megabyte image file into a pyramid of image tiles and display it on an interactive, 3D, Cesium globe.

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NASA Black Marble in Cesium

You’ll need a WebGL-capable browser such as Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox to run Cesium. To see if your browser supports WebGL, visit WebGL Report.