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SUBMITTER: Marshak A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6208167 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Marshak Alexander A Herman Jay J Szabo Adam A Blank Karin K Cede Alexander A Carn Simon S Geogdzhayev Igor I Huang Dong D Huang Liang-Kang LK Knyazikhin Yuri Y Kowalewski Matthew M Krotkov Nickolay N Lyapustin Alexei A McPeters Richard R Torres Omar O Yang Yuekui Y
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 20180901 9
The NOAA Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) spacecraft was launched on February 11, 2015, and in June 2015 achieved its orbit at the first Lagrange point or L1, 1.5 million km from Earth towards the Sun. There are two NASA Earth observing instruments onboard: the Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology Advanced Radiometer (NISTAR). The purpose of this paper is to describe various capabilities of the DSCOVR/EPIC instrument. EPIC views ...[more]