NASA captures epic image of Earth

Washington

This NASA handout image released July 20, 2015 shows Earth as seen on July 6, 2015 from a distance of one million miles captured by a NASA scientific camera aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory spacecraft. The color images of Earth from NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) were generated by combining three separate images to create a photographic-quality image.

The camera takes a series of 10 images using different narrowband filters -- from ultraviolet to near infrared -- to produce a variety of science products. The red, green and blue channel images are used in these Earth images.