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NOAA's & USAAF Deep Space Climate Observatory for monitoring space weather.

The Deep Space Climate Observatory is a collaboration between NOAA and the USAAF to monitor space weather and the solar wind. Its primary mission is to provide warning of activity which may be harmful to public infrastructure.

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What is the timeliness of DSCOVR-EPIC image acquisition and public release?

One of the original ideas behind what became the NOAA Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) was to to provide a live feed of the Earth from L-1. DSCOVR-EPIC photo released 20 July The Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) views the sunlit…
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What happened to DSCOVR, what stopped working?

In Scott Manley's recent video Views Of Earth and the Seasons From A Million Miles Away - DSCOVR & EPIC after about 04:20 he says: …it’s one of my favorite missions because it has this very simple idea of just showing the Earth continuously. So you…
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Why Are EPIC/DSCOVR Images delayed for a day?

Images from Himawari 8 come down every ten minutes and look like they might about 20 or 30 minutes old, almost real time. Images from the EPIC camera on DSCOVR always seem to be from yesterday. The following site says they're…
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Can I calculate how big the earth will be in photos of NASA's DSCVR EPIC camera?

I'm trying to build this thing. Shows photos of the DSCVR EPIC See the images here: https://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/ However I found out that the earth isn't always the same size in the photos, probably because of orbits, and the crop in the code is a…
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