Full Disk Earth from EPIC, October 17, 2015Earth rotates through an entire day as captured in this animation of 19 still images taken on October 17, 2015 by NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) spacecraft. Read more at http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/daily-views-of-earth-available-on-new-nasa-website#earthrightnow #epic #nasa
Posted by NASA's Earth Observatory on Monday, October 19, 2015
Each daily sequence of images will show the Earth as it rotates, thus revealing the whole globe over the course of a day.
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The images are taken by a NASA camera one million miles away on the Deep Space Climate Observatory or DSCOVR, a partnership between NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration or NOAA and the US Air Force, said a NASA statement.
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"The effective resolution of the EPIC camera is somewhere between 10-15 km," said Adam Szabo, DSCOVR project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre in Maryland.
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The much fainter stars are not visible in the background as a result of the short exposure times.
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