ASCII Marble

On January 4, 2012 NASA released an incredibly clear and detailed 8000x8000 pixel image of the Earth, called Blue Marble 2012, in which each pixel represents less than a square kilometer. The following ASCII Art images were made from this photograph. Click on the thumbnails to see larger images. The number in each title is the width and height of the corresponding image in characters. To get the width and height in pixels, multiply by 8.

Images (2012)

Grey Marble 90 (left), Text Marble 174 (right)

Grey Marble 192 (left), Grey Marble 384 (right)

Grey Marble 768 (left), Spiral Marble 192 (right)

Blue Marble 384 (left), Blue Marble 768 (right)

Blue Marble 768Q

Take the Red Pill (2012)

Everything you've been taught is false. We're living inside a computer. If you want to prove it, take the red pill and zoom into the picture of the Earth that NASA recently released.

Created February 10, 2012. Last updated August 7, 2019.