Watch: A year on Earth seen from a million miles away
NASA releases a new video taken from Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) on board the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR).
NASA has released a video which shows thousands of photos of Earth in sequence, taken over the course of a year.
The images were taken from Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) on board NASA's Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite from about a million miles away from our planet.
The Earth-science instrument takes a dozen photographs of Earth each day.
With these photos, Scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) can study variation in vegetation, cloud cover and other changes in the Earth’s surface.
For this video, scientists used over 3,000 photos captured by EPIC to show ‘a year in the life of our planet.’
The DSCOVR satellite was launched in February 2015 and is situated between the Sun and the Earth at a special gravitational point known as Lagrange one, according to the EPIC lead scientist, Jay Herman.
In the video, you can also see the Moon cast its shadow on Earth as it transits between the Sun and the Earth.