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Category: Weather · Auth: key · Status today: OK (HTTP 200) · 436 ms

Example request

This is the exact probe the sentinel runs daily — one read-only GET:

curl -s 'https://api.nasa.gov/planetary/apod?api_key=DEMO_KEY'

Example output

Captured 2026-08-23 00:54 UTC (application/json, first 400 chars):

{"copyright":"Vala\u0161sk\u00e9 Mezi\u0159\u00ed\u010d\u00ed Observatory","date":"2026-08-22","explanation":"Recorded the night of August 12-13, images from four dedicated meteor-monitoring cameras at an astronomical observatory in Czechia were aligned and combined to create this all-night, all-sky view. On that night, the total count came to 1,706 meteors. And since that coincided with the peak 

Checked 2026-08-23 00:54 UTC by the Free Tier Sentinel. Machine-readable: api-health.json.