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Earth Imagery MCP Connector for Claude

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Images of Earth from NASA's EPIC camera aboard DSCOVR — the freshest frames, the archive by date, and the scans centred nearest a place, keyless.

6 tools Official Updated Oct 1, 2026 Official Vinkius Partner
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Connect any AI agent to NASA's EPIC camera aboard NOAA's DSCOVR spacecraft, parked at the Earth–Sun L1 Lagrange point a million miles away — the view that sees the whole sunlit Earth at once. No key required.

What you can do

  • See the newest image of Earth — the latest frame published, with capture time and a permanent archive URL
  • Browse the archive — every date EPIC captured imagery, paged with offset and amount
  • Get every scan on a date — roughly one frame per hour across the dayside, enough to watch a full rotation
  • Fetch one frame by identifier — with the sub-spacecraft point and the J2000 positions of DSCOVR, the Moon and the Sun
  • Find the frames facing a place — pass a latitude and longitude, get the scans whose view was centred nearest it, with distance and bearing

Why it matters

EPIC is the only camera that continuously watches the whole sunlit disc, which is why it is the reference for daylight cloud cover, dust plumes and volcanic ash. The natural collection is the calibrated true-colour version; the enhanced collection boosts colour and contrast for detail, and trails it by days to weeks.

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6 tools expose this connector's capabilities to your AI agent.

get_earth_images_by_date

Accepts ISO dates only (YYYY-MM-DD). Throws when the collection has no frames that day and names dates that do. Get every image of Earth NASA EPIC captured on one date — capture time, sub-spacecraft point and archive URL for each scan

get_latest_earth_images

The natural collection publishes the same day; the enhanced collection lags it, so ask for natural when freshness matters. Returns the newest frame first. The URL points into the permanent archive and never changes. Get the freshest images of Earth NASA EPIC has published — capture time, the point on Earth under the spacecraft, and a stable archive URL for each frame

list_epic_collections

The two collections are the same frames treated differently: natural is the calibrated true-colour version and publishes same-day; enhanced has colour and contrast boosted for cloud detail and trails it by days to weeks. Both are keyless. List the NASA EPIC imagery collections — natural colour and enhanced colour — with how many dates each one covers and which date is newest, from the DSCOVR spacecraft at the Earth–Sun L1 point

list_epic_dates

This tool lists the dates that actually have frames. Pass offset to page backwards in time; amounts over 100 are rejected because the index is long. Hand one of the dates to get_earth_images_by_date. Page through every date NASA EPIC captured imagery, newest first — the archive index for planning a lookup by date

find_earth_images_near

Distances are great-circle kilometres from the place to the scan centre; a small distance means the place was near the middle of the frame. Widen max_distance_km or raise max_dates when nothing matches. Find the NASA EPIC scans whose view was centred closest to a latitude and longitude — the frames where a given place was facing the camera

get_earth_image

Get identifiers from get_latest_earth_images, get_earth_images_by_date or find_earth_images_near. Get one NASA EPIC frame by its identifier — the full record with archive URL, capture time, sub-spacecraft point and the J2000 positions of DSCOVR, the Moon and the Sun

See how to talk to your AI agent using Earth Imagery.

Show me the most recent photo of Earth.

EPIC's natural collection, captured 2026-09-17 00:03:42 UTC with scan centre 6.5N, 178.4E: https://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/archive/natural/2026/09/17/png/epic_1b_20260917000831.png — the newest frame NASA has published.

Was New York facing the EPIC camera recently?

The closest recent natural scan to 40.71N, 74.01W is epic_1b_20260916163014, 3859 km away on a bearing of 168° — the scan centre was well south of the city, so New York sat in the upper part of that frame: https://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/archive/natural/2026/09/16/png/epic_1b_20260916163014.png

Show me EPIC's first portraits of the whole sunlit Earth, from July 2015.

On 2015-07-06 EPIC took five frames spaced hours apart — the set NASA released that month as its first images of the entire sunlit Earth. The first, epic_1b_20150706051132 at 05:01 UTC, was centred on 19.1N 112.7E (Asia); the sequence then walked west — 07:01 UTC at 82.7E, 11:01 UTC at 22.7E (Africa and the Indian Ocean) — and by 18:01 UTC the centre had reached 18.9N 82.3W, with the Americas sunlit: https://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/archive/natural/2015/07/06/jpg/epic_1b_20150706051132.jpg. Ask for 2015-07-06 to get all five.

No. This reads NASA's public EPIC archive, which requires no key or account.

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