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On This Day in 2015: An EPIC New View of Earth

One million miles away, the DSCOVR satellite returned its first view of entire sunlit side of Earth

(Flashback) Image of the Day for July 6, 2023

• https://t.co/55lNlzeK7M

Instrument:

DSCOVR — EPIC

Collection:

Earth from Afar

• https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/collection/1658/earth-from-afar

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Earth Science Research from Space

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Science_Research_from_Space

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/1969_beginnings_of_the_modern_environmental_movement.pdf

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_System_Science

• https://greenpolicy360.net/w/George_E._Brown_Jr

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GreenPolicy360 Was 'In on the Mission

GreenPolicy360 assists NASA's DSCOVR mission team

GreenPolicy360 steps up as Planet Citizens to aid the NASA/NOAA team deliver DSCOVR/EPIC data and imagery

GreenPolicy360: In a fortuitous way, we were 'In on the Mission'... We were in contact with and assisted the NASA DSCOVR project manager in the online distribution of news and educational information about the EPIC DSCOVR history, launch, and beginning of its imaging 'from a million miles away'. Our GreenPolicy360 founder-siterunner looked back at the origins of Earth Science mission of NASA and legislators, scientists, and 'planet citizens' who first envisioned the importance of having data, and a record of 'change over time' of Earth's systems that could be monitored from near orbit in alignment with the original NASA Mission Statement.

The history of these pioneers is a key to understanding, today, now over 50 years on, how we went into space with an eye to understanding our home planet.

Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists

Earth Science Research from Space

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