Now You Can Watch Earth As It Rotates On NASA’s New Website

NASA has launched its new website this Monday so the world can see the full Sunlit Images of Earth every day.The following animation is a collection of 22 still images taken by Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) spacecraft on 17th September, 2015. EPIC is a four megapixel CCD camera and telescope. The color Earth images are created by combining three separate single-color images to create a photographic-quality image equivalent to a 12-megapixel camera.

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NASA will upload a dozen of images every day taken by EPIC on their new website. You’ll also be able to search images by date and continent. The primary objective of NOAA’s DSCOVR mission is to maintain the nation’s real-time solar wind monitoring capabilities, which are critical to the accuracy and lead time of space weather alerts and forecasts from NOAA.

EPIC was built by Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Technology Center, in Palo Alto, California.

For daily images from EPIC, visit: – http://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/

For more information about the DSCOVR mission, visit: – http://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/DSCOVR/

News source – NASA

Featured image – NASA

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