A COLOUR STUDY OF OUR PLANET
A world of colour.
One place at a time.
The green of a forest. The pale sweep of a desert. The changing whites of the far north. Explore Earth through the colours in NASA’s Blue Marble imagery.
LOOK CLOSER
Every place has
a palette to explore.
Average Earth is a free interactive world colour map. Pick a location to sample its hex and RGB colour, follow a latitude or longitude, and compare the same place across twelve monthly images.
Use it to explore geography, discover colour combinations, or simply see familiar places differently. You can share a view and download the colours with their source information.
This is an atlas of processed images from 2004, not a live satellite feed or a measurement of today’s surface colours.
THREE PLACES TO BEGIN
Where will you look first?
FIELD NOTES