One Year In The Life of Earth
EPIC takes a new picture every two hours, revealing how the planet would look to human eyes, capturing the ever-changing motion of clouds and weather systems and the fixed features of Earth such as deserts, forests and the distinct blues of different seas. EPIC will allow scientists to monitor ozone and aerosol levels in Earth’s atmosphere, cloud height, vegetation properties and the ultraviolet reflectivity of Earth.
The primary objective of DSCOVR, a partnership between NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the U.S. Air Force, is to maintain the nation’s real-time solar wind monitoring capabilities, which are critical to the accuracy and lead time of space weather alerts and forecasts from NOAA.
For more information about DSCOVR, visit: http://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/DSCOVR/. To view all the pictures EPIC has taken, visit https://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov.
Scientist Jay Herman narrates this video showing one year in the life of Earth seen through the lens of NASA's EPIC camera.
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Animator
- Kayvon Sharghi (USRA)
Visualizer
- Joycelyn Thomson Jones (NASA/GSFC)
Video editor
- Kayvon Sharghi (USRA)
Scientists
- Adam Szabo (NASA/GSFC)
- Alexander Marshak (NASA/GSFC)
- Jay Herman (NASA/GSFC)
Producer
- Kayvon Sharghi (USRA)
Narration
- Kayvon Sharghi (USRA)
Narrator
- Jay Herman (NASA/GSFC)