NASA released the first video of Earth spinning for an entire year thanks to the only deep space satellite, Deep Space Climate Observatory.

Images of our worldly concern as get wind from outer space assist put our job — our very creation , really — into perspective .

“ It suddenly stuck me that that tiny pea , pretty and blue , was the Earth , ” Neil Armstrong oncesaidof his view from the moon . “ I put up my thumb and close one eye , and my thumb spot out the major planet Earth . I did n’t feel like a giant . I felt very , very modest . ”

In its nearly 60 - class history , NASA has often work to apportion that very experience with those of us who ca n’t take off in rockets .

With that mission in judgement , NASA ’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies released a sentence - lapse video of our planet like you ’ve never seen it before : turn out through one full class , as seen from a million mil aside .

The picture is composed of 1000 of photographs taken by the Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera ( EPIC ) aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory ( DSCOVR ) , the first deep - space satellite dedicated to photographing our planet .

The photos in question are so well - light up because of the investigation ’s perfect position in a unique piece of blank real estate called Lagrange item 1 .

“ This sphere is a somberness neutral point in space , allowing DSCOVR to fundamentally hover between the sun and Earth at all times , maintaining a never-ending view of the sun and sunlight - lit side of Earth , ” the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , which engage DSCOVR , explains .

“ From here , the artificial satellite can put up forward-looking solar measurements and former warning of potentially unsafe space atmospheric condition case , acting as a solar storm buoy in recondite outer space . ”

The probe , which was first project by then - Vice President Al Gore , facilitate scientists monitor weather and climate change .

And less significantly but perhaps more interestingly , it help us finally see the drear side of the lunar month :

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