It is an app that uses an api provided by NASA to show A Picture of the day. You can search via a date or you can select the number of pictures for the present day
GET https://api.nasa.gov/planetary/apod
Parameter | Type | Default | Description |
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date |
YYYY-MM-DD |
today | The date of the APOD image to retrieve |
start_date |
YYYY-MM-DD |
none | The start of a date range, when requesting date for a range of dates. Cannot be used with date . |
end_date |
YYYY-MM-DD |
today | The end of the date range, when used with start_date . |
count |
int |
none | If this is specified then count randomly chosen images will be returned. Cannot be used with date or start_date and end_date . |
thumbs |
bool |
False | Return the URL of video thumbnail. If an APOD is not a video, this parameter is ignored. |
api_key |
string |
DEMO_KEY | api.nasa.gov key for expanded usage |