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Offline Ironchew

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Recent pictures of full Earth available
« on: October 20, 2015, 03:27:08 pm »
NASA has the archive up for pictures from DSCOVR's Earth-facing camera.

From the main DSCOVR page:

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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.

Until recently we haven't had many pictures of Earth from far enough away to see nearly an entire hemisphere, much less several pictures per day.
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Re: Recent pictures of full Earth available
« Reply #1 on: October 20, 2015, 04:57:08 pm »
Look at last Saturday's images.  19 of them, and you can see cloud formations drifting slightly as the hours tick by. :)
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Re: Recent pictures of full Earth available
« Reply #2 on: October 22, 2015, 09:29:07 am »
Fascinating.

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Re: Recent pictures of full Earth available
« Reply #3 on: January 09, 2016, 10:42:51 am »
Wow! A live webcam of the Earth. I'm impressed!  :)