Happy Earth Day!
Earth as seen by the NASA/NOAA DSCOVR satellite on July 6, 2015.
Orbiting at the L1 point between the Earth and the Sun, DSCOVR takes images of the illuminated hemisphere of the Earth as it rotates underneath. This is in contrast to geostationary satellites, which orbit at the same speed that the Earth rotates, seeing day and night pass over the same location.
The Trump administration has proposed turning off the Earth facing camera of this spacecraft. So, on that note I think we should have a Stupidity Day.
http://www.space.com/36112-trump-budget-cancels-nasa-earth-science-missions.html
Cheers,
#EarthDay2017 #universe #marchforscience #DSCOVR
I think we have quite a few stupidity days, whether we want to or not.
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