A Spectacular View Of Planet Earth As Seen 1 Million Miles Away

First Posted: Jul 22, 2016 04:47 AM EDT

It has been one year since the released of the spectacular view of Earth as seen a million miles away on July 6, 2015. This was taken by NOAA's DSCOVR satellite's EPIC camera. After a year, DSCOVR highlighted images of the planet Earth that could be seen in the video.

.@dscovr_epic takes a new picture every 2 hours, capturing clouds and weather and the fixed features of Earth. pic.twitter.com/VTGzyG4yFd

— NASA Earth (@NASAEarth) July 20, 2016

The time-lapse video was published last Wednesday. It was made possible by the satellite's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC). NASA utilized more than 3,000 EPIC images to assemble the footage to show a year in the life of the planet. This also shows the planet Earth twirling around against the dark of space, according to CNet.

23:45 on Saturday July 16th, over the North Pacific Ocean pic.twitter.com/QaygOReVih — DSCOVR:EPIC (@dscovr_epic) July 22, 2016

18:17 on Saturday July 9th, over the Caribbean Sea pic.twitter.com/BUZVzT4oFM

— DSCOVR:EPIC (@dscovr_epic) July 12, 2016

Some of these images include the moon's shadow being cast on Earth during a solar eclipse and two lunar "photobombs," the swirling clouds and brown and green land masses of the Blue Marble.

NASA stated that the space camera allows the scientists to monitor ozone and aerosol levels in the Earth's atmosphere, the ultraviolet reflectivity of Earth, vegetation properties and the cloud height. The EPIC takes at least one photo for every two hours and it records each set in 10 different wavelengths.

It also tracks the movement of the clouds, which covered about two-thirds of the planet Earth. EPIC is an Earth science instrument aboard the DSCOVR satellite on February 2015. The Deep Space Climate Observatory or DSCOVR is a space weather satellite and a NOAA Earth observation that was launched by Space X with Falcon 9 in 2015 from Cape Canaveral. When the spacecraft arrived on the site and entered the operational phase, NASA started releasing images of Earth through the EPIC instrument's website.