NASA has for the first time a picture to be shared with the new DSCOVR satellite is made. From 1.6 million miles away – much further than the moon – made DSCOVR is a picture of North and part of South America. More pictures will follow, promises NASA.
The photo is actually three different photographs that are combined, reports the NASA. The camera of the DSCOVR, which in February was launched, a recording of ten pictures in a row. Three of these are no longer visible for people: in the red, green and blue light spectrum. Those pictures are combined with each other for the recording. In addition, the camera also utlraviolet and infrared light.
On the picture of the satellite is yet to be seen that the earth has a bluish tint about him, which is the result of the way in which sunlight by molecules in the atmosphere is broken. The team behind the camera aboard DSCOVR is concerned with a technique for that effect, so that country will be visible.
From september, every day, new photos on the website of the project is placed, which with a 12 to 36 hour delay to be published. That is not the primary purpose of the satellite, which is primarily built to solar wind monitor. These particles from the sun and the solar system be ejected, may also have an impact on the earth. Also, the composition of the ozone layer in the holes held, as well as the height of clouds and the way the earth ultraviolet light reflects.
The DSCOVR satellite is 1.6 million kilometers from the earth. That is further than the moon, which is roughly between 370.000 and 405,000 kilometers away from the earth. It is not the picture that’s on the farthest distance from the earth is taken: Marslanders from their new home, even though pictures of the earth taken. It was the earth, however, only a small speck on the horizon.
The satellite is the first so-called lagrange point. That is, in this case, the point at which the tugging of the sun and the earth are balanced, which he more or less still lingers.
