Starting this Monday, October 19, NASA launched a new website that it says was created for our entertainment. The website presents, on a daily basis, images of the Earth as seen from space, with the sunlit side of the planet always in focus.
The agency says it created this website so that we can see the world every day and anyone who wants to can keep photos. Thus, the organization promises to upload at least ten new photos on a daily basis.
We read from NASA:
“NASA launched a new website on Monday so that the world can see images of the full, sunlit side of Earth every day. Once a day, NASA will release at least a dozen new color images of Earth acquired 12-36 hours earlier. Each daily sequence of images will show Earth as it rotates, revealing the entire planet.”.
NASA's new website will allow people to browse archived images by continent. Uploaded images can also be sorted by date.
The photos of our planet are taken by a camera mounted on the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), which is a satellite for observation and meteorology.
The primary mission of the DSCOVR spacecraft is to closely monitor the solar winds heading our way and warn us of those that may disrupt the upper atmosphere and consequently disrupt GPS and communication signals. The photos it shares with us on the DSCOVR:EPIC are just a bonus.
