Whatever impressions Pale Blue Dot might have made, the incredible image of the Earth obtained by NOAA Deep Space Climate Observatory DSCOVR, blows it right out of the water.
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These initial Earth images show the effects of sunlight scattered by air molecules, giving the images a characteristic bluish tint. He said as an astronaut, he would like everyone to appreciate and see the Earth as one piece of interacting, integrated system.
Bolden said the spacecraft’s observation of earth will help people know to monitor earth and how earth fits into neighborhood in the solar system.
Form the image of the Earth taken by Voyager in 1990 at a distance of about 3.7 billion miles away shows the Earth as a trifling one pixel. The EPIC team is working to remove this atmospheric effect from subsequent images.
Now, when the satellite eventually goes into full operation, NASA will expect new images every day. These images, available 12 to 36 hours after they are acquired, will be posted to a dedicated Web page by September 2015.
The high-resolution images show desert sand structures, river systems and complex cloud patterns on planet Earth. These have opened up a huge repository of new data for the scientists to explore.
NASA just exposed a July sixth astonishing picture of the sun-lit Earth, accepted by the EPIC video camera on NASA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory.
The satellite was launched in February and recently reached its planned orbit at the first Lagrange point or L1, about one million miles from Earth toward the Sunday. Besides this, the camera observations will be used to measure ozone levels in Earth’s atmosphere, plant growth on the ground, build maps showing the distribution of dust and volcanic ash around the globe and many more.
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And all of this new information will be archived as well as distributed by the Atmospheric Science Data Center at the NASA Langley Center.
