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Feb 10, 2015 From here in Florida, another mission is scheduled to go up, not w/ humans snapping pics but a mission intended to monitor space weather and, due to its distance from Earth (1 mil miles), the DSCOVR (Deep Space Climate Observatory) will be sending back daily images of the 'whole earth'...

"DSCOVR will be beaming back a steady stream of images of our home planet from space, a photo of Earth ever two hours, with the images expected to be available online the next day."

"They'll be posted on a website for the public to see," said Steven Clarke, director of NASA's Joint Agency Satellite Division. "I think it will be an inspiration for people to see the sunlit disk of the Earth."

And of course they'll be numbered by NASA ;-

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"What will be the most impressive, after forty some years, will be the images of us, Planet Earth." -- #GreenPolicy360

"To see ‪and to experience #‎Earth360‬ daily, it's going to be a spectacular re-reminder of our place in the cosmos..." -- Steven Schmidt ‪

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Whole_Earth

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NASA Image AS17-148-22727

... the first photograph taken of the whole round Earth and the only one ever snapped by a human being

Dec 7, 1972 -- the only picture ever snapped by a human of the whole earth is captured -- our "Blue Marble"

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Whole_Earth_1972_Apollo_17.jpg

NASA named the 70mm Hasselblad image -- AS17-148-22727