# Saylor Innovations Data Desk – NASA EPIC Earth Imagery

> Saylor Innovations Data Desk – NASA EPIC Earth Imagery is a paid API for AI agents from saylorinnovations.com, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-30).

Returns NASA EPIC full-disc Earth images from the DSCOVR satellite for the latest or a specified date, including capture timestamps, Earth centroid coordinates, and JPG/PNG image URLs.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://saylorinnovations.com/api/earth/epic?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-30
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/saylor-innovations-data-desk-nasa-epic-earth-imagery-65c35290
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_H4y7jR9LrW23bOwbdM2ym

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability saylor-innovations-data-desk-nasa-epic-earth-imagery-65c35290
```

Example prompt: Can you pull the NASA EPIC full-disc Earth images from the DSCOVR satellite for yesterday and give me the JPG URLs along with the capture times and Earth centroid coordinates?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need structured metadata — timestamps, centroid coordinates, and direct image URLs — for NASA EPIC full-disc Earth photos from the DSCOVR satellite, especially when you want both JPG and PNG formats in a single response. Prefer it over scraping NASA's own EPIC site when you need a clean JSON response with coordinate data. At $0.01 per call it is cost-effective for lookups of individual dates or the latest available imagery.

## Known failure modes

- No images available for a future or very recent date (NASA EPIC data may lag by hours or days)
- Invalid date format returns an error or empty frames array
- Network timeout or upstream NASA API unavailability
- Date outside the EPIC mission range (pre-June 2015) returns no results
- Missing or malformed parameters may cause a 400-level error

## How this service works

NASA EPIC full-disc Earth images from the DSCOVR satellite for the latest or a chosen day - capture time, Earth centroid coordinates and JPG and PNG URLs

## Output

Returns a JSON object containing the date, total image count, data source label, optional notes, and an array of frames. Each frame includes a unique ID, UTC capture timestamp, Earth centroid latitude/longitude, NASA caption, and direct JPG and PNG image URLs ready for display or download.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "json"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "date",
      "frames"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "date": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Date (YYYY-MM-DD)"
      },
      "note": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Caveat or context for reading the result"
      },
      "frames": {
       "type": "array",
       "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
         "id": {
          "description": "Identifier of the record"
         },
         "caption": {
          "type": [
           "string",
           "null"
          ],
          "description": "NASA caption describing the view"
         },
         "jpg_url": {
          "description": "Jpg URL"
         },
         "png_url": {
          "description": "Png URL"
         },
         "centroid": {
          "type": [
           "object",
           "null"
          ],
          "description": "Latitude and longitude at the centre of the image"
         },
         "time_utc": {
          "description": "Time utc"
         }
        }
       },
       "description": "Images with id, UTC time, centroid coordinates and a direct image URL"
      },
      "images": {
       "type": "number",
       "description": "Number of EPIC full-disc Earth images available for the date"
      },
      "source": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Data source the values come from"
      }
     }
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

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