One million miles from Earth, a NASA camera is capturing unexpected flashes of light reflecting off our planet.
Yes, our Earth apparently shows terrestrial glint in the upper atmosphere as seen in this NASA video from the DSCOVR satellite:
So what are those mysterious flashes of light?
Parked in space a million miles from Earth, the Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) onboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) captures glimmers of reflected sunlight, evidence of ice crystals in the atmosphere.