The Earth from space
The whole sunlit Earth as NASA's EPIC camera recorded it, a day at a time, and yesterday's Earth from a satellite's passes.
The whole Earth, from a million miles
NASA's EPIC camera on NOAA's DSCOVR, which hangs between the Earth and the Sun and sees the whole sunlit side at once.
Recorded 18 Oct 22:36 UTC3 days agopicture 13 of 13
The newest day NASA has published: 18 Oct 2026
A recording, not live: NASA publishes EPIC's pictures a day at a time, one to four days after they are taken, about one every one to two hours while the camera sees the sunlit side.
- Centre of the picture
- 0.3° S, 170.6° W
- DSCOVR from the Earth DERIVED
- 1,539,000 km
The time is EPIC's own for each picture (UTC); the distance is Browse's arithmetic on the spacecraft position EPIC gives with it.
NASA EPIC Team: NASA's EPIC camera on NOAA's DSCOVR spacecraft. NASA says EPIC's pictures are free to reuse, and asks that the EPIC team be credited.
The whole Earth on 20 Oct 2026, from NOAA-20
One UTC day of a polar-orbiting satellite's passes, laid flat; each place as it looked when the satellite flew over it.
NOAA-20 VIIRS Corrected Reflectance, true colour, from NASA GIBS. The black wedges are the gaps between the satellite's passes, and the black band the polar night, where there was no daylight to photograph. We acknowledge the use of imagery provided by services from NASA's Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS), part of NASA's Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS).
Explore further, in NASA's own tools
Each opens on its maker's site.
- NASA's Eyes on the Earth ↗NASA's Earth-watching satellites in 3D, a simulation from mission data.
- NASA Worldview ↗Every GIBS layer, day by day: fires, storms, smoke, ice.
- NASA EPIC ↗EPIC's own gallery, with the aerosol and cloud products.
- The Sun now →NASA SDO's pictures minutes old, and what the Sun has been doing.