EPIC video showing a year on Earth as seen from space.

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 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/

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Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Kayvon Sharghi

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