See EPIC Views of Rotating Earth Daily from NASA’s New DSCOVR Observatory Website

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Source: Universe Today

At long last, beautiful new high resolution views of the rotating Earth can be seen daily by everyone at a new NASA website – all courtesy of images taken by NASA’s EPIC camera on board the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) spacecraft. And as seen in the time-lapse animation above, they provide a wonderful new asset for students everywhere to learn geography that’s just a finger tip away!

The EPIC camera, which stands for Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC), is located a million miles away on the DSCOVR real time space weather monitoring satellite and is designed to take full disk color images of the sunlit side of our home planet multiple times per day.

The EPIC NASA images are literally just a finger tip away. They can all be easily viewed at NASA’s new EPIC camera website which went online today, Monday, October 19, 2015.

To see the daily sequence of rotating images, visit the EPIC website link: http://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/

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Read more: http://www.universetoday.com/122952/see-epic-views-of-rotating-earth-daily-from-nasas-new-dscovr-observatory-website/

[bananas]

1. Related: Robert Farquhar, inventor of the halo orbit, died yesterday.

DSCOVR is in a halo orbit, these orbits were discovered by Robert Farquhar.
One of his spacecraft tweeted his obit:

https://twitter.com/ISEE3Reboot/status/655826872673026048

I lost my human brother Bob Farquhar today. Although I don't have a computer I will always remember him. #ISEE3

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_orbit

http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=38674

http://nasawatch.com/archives/2015/10/bob-farquhar.html

http://spaceref.com/isee-3/robert-farquhar-1932-2015.html

[Uncle Joe]

2. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, bananas.

[bananas]

3. Press Release: Daily Earth images available from DSCOVR satellite EPIC instrument

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-10/nsfc-dei101915.php

Public Release: 19-Oct-2015

Daily Earth images available from DSCOVR satellite EPIC instrument

Daily views of Earth available on new NASA website

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA launched a new website Monday so the world can see images of the full, sunlit side of the Earth every day. The images are taken by a NASA camera one million miles away on the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), a partnership between NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the U.S. Air Force.

Once a day NASA will post at least a dozen new color images of Earth acquired from 12 to 36 hours earlier by NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC). Each daily sequence of images will show the Earth as it rotates, thus revealing the whole globe over the course of a day. The new website also features an archive of EPIC images searchable 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. NASA has two Earth-observing instruments on the spacecraft. EPIC's images of Earth allow scientists to study daily variations over the entire globe in such features as vegetation, ozone, aerosols, and cloud height and reflectivity.

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[bananas]

4. Your daily 'blue marble': New Nasa site features high-resolution images of the Earth each day taken

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3280055/Your-daily-blue-marble-New-Nasa-site-features-high-resolution-images-Earth-day-taken-one-million-miles-away.html

Your daily 'blue marble': New Nasa site features high-resolution images of the Earth each day taken from one million miles away

• Site features images taken from the Deep Space Climate Observatory around 12 to 36 hours earlier
  
  
• Image sequence will show the Earth as it rotates, revealing the whole globe over the course of a day
  
  
• New site also features an archive of the probe's images, which are searchable by date and continent
  

By Ellie Zolfagharifard For Dailymail.com

Published: 18:42 EST, 19 October 2015 | Updated: 18:49 EST, 19 October 2015

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