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.
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Kayvon Sharghi
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In celebration of Star Trek's new movie and 50th anniversary, the Hubble Space Telescope is sharing its newest Frontier Field image, which uses a clever trick from nature to boldly observe what no telescope has observed before.
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Katrina Jackson
Music caption: "To the Top I Climb" by Alvin West, David Travis Edwards, Joshua McDonnell, and Michael Wagner - Killer Tracks BMI and Soundcast Music SESAC
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is amazing!.. "about 1/20" of way out there! .. of course it brought visions of living (still mostly) color living in our deep blue (where we are still lucky) waters
Rainbow of Fluorescent Corals Found—Why Do They Glow?
Deep beneath the waves of the Red Sea, scientists have discovered corals that fluoresce in a range of colors, likely because it helps their algae friends.
By Carrie Arnold, National Geographic June 30, 2015
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