Takes images from NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) instrument aboard DSCOVR (in a Lissajous orbit at the Sun-Earth L1 Lagrangian point, 1,500,000 km from Earth), computes the SHA256 hash, splits that into a set of 32-bit random seeds, and pushes them onto an AWS SQS queue for applications where a random seed is required. To be evaluated in future research: the statistical properties of generated seeds, to gauge their usefulness for different applications.
- serverless
npm install -g serverless
Set up your SQS FIFO queue (with content based dedup enabled) and copy and paste its URL into below instructions, along with a NASA API_KEY (optional, otherwise the code defaults to DEMO_KEY)
export SQS_QUEUE_URL="your_SQS_url"
# export API_KEY=your_API_key
serverless deployThe Midsomer Murders bot as currently running at @midsomerplots.