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EPIC Earth Imagery Retrieval

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Recipe · 3 steps

EPIC Earth Imagery Retrieval

with NASA

Resolve an available EPIC date and retrieve its natural and enhanced color imagery metadata.

  1. Read the catalog of every date for which EPIC holds natural color imagery. This is the only reliable way to pick a date that will actually return images, since DSCOVR does not capture usable full-disc imagery every day.
  2. Retrieve natural color image metadata for the selected date. Each entry carries the image filename, the caption, the centroid coordinates of the Earth disc, and the spacecraft, lunar, and solar J2000 positions at capture time.
  3. Retrieve enhanced color image metadata for the same date so the caller can pair each natural color capture with its contrast-enhanced rendering of the same moment.
What you'll need to have ready
  • apiKey: NASA API key from api.nasa.gov. DEMO_KEY works for low-volume testing.
For your developer

Arazzo workflow nasa:epic-earth-imagery-retrieval, 3 operations: getEpicNaturalDates → getEpicNaturalByDate → getEpicEnhancedByDate. Specs on APIs.io.

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