As the World Turns

full earth with Asia visible
This image was taken by NASA's EPIC camera onboard the NOAA DSCOVR spacecraft
April 19, 2019
CreditNOAA/NASA EPIC Team
Historical DateApril 17, 2019
Language
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The planet Earth on April 17, 2019. The Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC), a NASA camera aboard NOAA’s DSCOVR spacecraft, returns daily images of Earth from a distance of nearly 1 million miles (1.6 million kilometers).

This animation shows the entire rotation of the planet on that day.

rotating earth