Published April 27, 2025 | Version v1
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DSCOVR/EPIC 10 wavelength views of Jupiter

Authors/Creators

  • 1. NASA Goddared Space Flight Center
  • 2. ROR icon University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Contributors

Contact person:

  • 1. ROR icon Goddard Space Flight Center

Description

The EPIC (Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera) onboard the DSCOVR (Deep Space Climate Observatory) contains narrow band filters for the oxygen B-band centered at 687.75±0.42 nm and a nearby reference channel at 680±0.8 nm that is not absorbed by O2. EPIC observed a spatially resolved Jupiter in 2016 and again in 2019 when it came within 4O of the Earth-Sun line in the center of a 2048x2048 CCD (Charge Coupled Device) camera.   The files labelled 1a contain individual images that are co-added and contained in files labelled 1b.

The 1a files contain dates and time and other technical data. 

The 10 monochromatic images are in counts/sec that can be converted to reflected radiances or albedos using the calibration coefficients contained in 

Herman, J., Huang, L., McPeters, R., Ziemke, J., Cede, A., and Blank, K.: Synoptic ozone, cloud reflectivity, and erythemal irradiance from sunrise to sunset for the whole earth as viewed by the DSCOVR spacecraft from the earth sun Lagrange 1 orbit, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 11, 177-194, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-177-2018, 2018.

Marshak, A., J. Herman, A. Szabo, K. Blank, A. Cede, S. Carn, I. Geogdzhaev, D. Huang, L.-K. Huang, Y. Knyazikhin, M. Kowalewski, N. Krotkov, A. Lyapustin, R. McPeters, K. Meyer, O. Torres and Y. Yang, 2018. Earth Observations from DSCOVR/EPIC Instrument. Bulletin Amer. Meteor. Soc. (BAMS), 9, 1829-1850, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-17-0223.1.

Files

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md5:34e78aae65e91a2788e4cddd0c3992fb
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Additional details

Funding

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Dates

Available
2016-03-15
2016 EPIC Counts of Jupiter
Available
2019-06-05
2019 EPIC Counts of Jupiter

References

  • Herman, J., Huang, L., McPeters, R., Ziemke, J., Cede, A., and Blank, K.: Synoptic ozone, cloud reflectivity, and erythemal irradiance from sunrise to sunset for the whole earth as viewed by the DSCOVR spacecraft from the earth sun Lagrange 1 orbit, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 11, 177-194, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-177-2018, 2018.
  • Marshak, A., J. Herman, A. Szabo, K. Blank, A. Cede, S. Carn, I. Geogdzhaev, D. Huang, L.-K. Huang, Y. Knyazikhin, M. Kowalewski, N. Krotkov, A. Lyapustin, R. McPeters, K. Meyer, O. Torres and Y. Yang, 2018. Earth Observations from DSCOVR/EPIC Instrument. Bulletin Amer. Meteor. Soc. (BAMS), 9, 1829-1850, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-17-0223.1.