Not a hard choice for me. The time lapse is titled ‘One year in the life of Earth’. It consists of 3000 images captured by NASA’s EPIC camera aboard the DSCVR satellite. The camera captures only the sunlit face of the earth. The spacecraft always remains between the sun and the earth 1,000,000 miles away at a “special gravitational point known as Lagrange 1”.
This video was released just a few hours ago by NASA’s Goddard Space Center Facebook page. It has not been posted to YouTube or Vimeo, so I am unable to embed it. But, You can find it here. p.s the moon shot will blow you away.
From NASA before the launch back in 2015. Currently, to get an entire Earth view, scientists have to piece together images from satellites in orbit. With the launch of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) DSCOVR and the EPIC instrument, scientists will get pictures of the entire sunlit side of Earth. To get that view, EPIC will orbit the first sun-Earth Lagrange point (L1), 1 million miles from Earth. At this location, four times further than the orbit of the Moon, the gravitational pull of the sun and Earth cancel out providing a stable orbit for DSCOVR. Most other Earth-observing satellites circle the planet within 22,300 miles."Unlike personal cameras, EPIC will take images in 10 very narrow wavelength ranges," said Adam Szabo, DSCOVR project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland. "Combining these different wavelength images allows the determination of physical quantities like ozone, aerosols, dust and volcanic ash, cloud height, or vegetation cover. These results will be distributed as different publicly available data products allowing their combination with results from other missions."
These data products are of interest to climate science, as well as hydrology, biogeochemistry, and ecology. Data will also provide insight into Earth’s energy balance.
EPIC was built by Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Technology Center, in Palo Alto, California. It is a 30 centimeter (11.8 inch) telescope that measures in the ultraviolet, and visible areas of the spectrum. EPIC images will have a resolution of between 25 and 35 kilometers (15.5 to 21.7 miles).