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DSCOVR | EPIC

Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera

Daily Views of Earth Available on New NASA Website

http://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/

http://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/DSCOVR/

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DSCOVR successfully launched on Feburary 11, 2015 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. It took the satellite just over 100 days to reach its final orbit at Lagrange point 1.

America’s first operational deep space satellite orbits one million miles from Earth. Positioned between the sun and Earth, it is able to maintain a constant view of the sun and sun-lit side of Earth.

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Earth rotates thru space on December 24th, 2015

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