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Whole Earth disc image captures Australia and Antarctica two days ago!

(Posted 8 December 2015) The DSCOVR satellite is now beaming back images of the Sun facing side of the Earth each day.

Image captured by the Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera on the DSCOVR satellite at 1:39 pm AEST 6 December 2015.
Image captured by the Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera on the DSCOVR satellite at 1:49 pm AEST 6 December 2015.

Refer to the below image for an explanation of the above whole Earth disc image.

Screenshot captured from http://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Screenshot captured from http://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/

More information about the DSCOVR satellite can be found here: http://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov 

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