One
year on
Earth seen from a
million miles away
In July last year, NASA relayed the very first image taken by its
Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (ironically, EPIC for short).*
The image marked the first of its kind to show the sunlit side of the Earth. A
year later, NASA has gifted us dwelling here on the big spinning rock with vision of what a
year on
Earth looks like
from a million miles away. Mind blown.
EPIC is a component of the satellite Deep Space Climate Observatory
(DISCOVR), which is balanced between the gravity of the planet we call home and the sun. It
captures a photo every two hours that depicts just how the human eye would see its home
from the outside —
from its atmospheric changes to its drifting of clouds and stirring of storm systems.*
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