One Year On Earth – Seen From 1 Million Miles Video

One Year on Earth – Seen From 1 Million Miles


View: https://youtu.be/CFrP6QfbC2g

On July 20, 2015, NASA released to the world the first image
of the sunlit side of Earth captured by the space agency's EPIC camera
on NOAA's DSCOVR satellite.

The camera has now recorded a full year of life on Earth
from its orbit at Lagrange point 1, approximately 1 million miles
from Earth, where it is balanced between the gravity
of our home planet and the sun. EPIC takes a new picture every two hours,
revealing how the planet would look to human eyes,
capturing the ever-changing motion of clouds and weather systems
and the fixed features of Earth such as deserts, forests
and the distinct blues of different seas. EPIC will allow scientists
to monitor ozone and aerosol levels in Earth’s atmosphere,
cloud height, vegetation properties
and the ultraviolet reflectivity of Earth.

The primary objective of DSCOVR, a partnership between NASA,
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
and the U.S. Air Force, 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.

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

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Kayvon Sharghi Music Credit:
Beside You, Dominic Marsh and Giovanni Tria on Sound Pocket Music

This video is public domain and along
with other supporting visualizations can be downloaded from the Scientific Visualization Studio at: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12312

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