Earth Now
Earth as the satellites see it
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DSCOVR, EPIC
Natural colour
Latest
EPIC publishes days later: this is the newest image NASA has released.
Loop
Natural colour from EPIC's red, green and blue exposures, a few minutes apart. The whole sunlit side of Earth, seen from between Earth and the Sun: there is no night side to fill in.
The observer
- Satellite
- DSCOVR
- Kind
- Earth-watching satellite
- Instrument
- EPIC, the Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera: NASA's camera on a 30 cm telescope, which takes the whole sunlit Earth through 10 narrow filters, from the ultraviolet to the near infrared.
- Scene
- The whole sunlit Earth as seen from L1, about 1.5 million km from the Earth on the line to the Sun.
DSCOVR flies at L1, about 1.5 million km away, far beyond the globe's reach.
Image: NASA EPIC Team, public domain.
Full-resolution originals (2,048 px) of the day at NASA's EPIC site
About these images
NASA's EPIC Team, which publishes these images, says: “Materials published by the NASA EPIC Team, including imagery, are freely available for re-production or re-use, including commercial purposes. We ask that the NASA EPIC Team be given credit for the original materials.” The provider's own page
This site last read the provider's list of images on Nov 7, 2026 at 9:25 PM UTC.
The site never invents an image or the instant it was taken, never presents one as Earth at this very moment (the newest is the Latest, with its instant and its age), and keeps no copy of its own: each image is fetched from the provider when a page asks for it and passed on as published.