This animation features actual satellite images of the far side of the moon, illuminated by the sun, as it crosses between the DSCOVR spacecraft’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) and telescope, and the Earth – a million miles away. Image via NASA/NOAA
Here’s something you don’t see every day. It’s our moon, as seen from its far side, crossing the face of the Earth. A NASA camera aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite was conducting a series of test images when it captured this view of the moon in July, 2015.
NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC), a four megapixel CCD camera and telescope on the DSCOVR satellite orbiting 1 million miles (1.6 million km) from Earth, created the images used to make this animation.
From its position between the sun and Earth, DSCOVR conducts its primary mission of real-time solar wind monitoring for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Read more about this image from NASA
Still image of July, 2015 capture by DSCOVR satellite of moon and Earth. Image via NASA/NOAA
Bottom line: In July 2015 – while testing a spaceborne camera – a satellite caught images of the moon crossing the Earth’s face. The images show the moon’s far side, the side never seen from Earth.
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This animation features actual satellite images of the far side of the moon, illuminated by the sun, as it crosses between the DSCOVR spacecraft’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) and telescope, and the Earth – a million miles away. Image via NASA/NOAA
Here’s something you don’t see every day. It’s our moon, as seen from its far side, crossing the face of the Earth. A NASA camera aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite was conducting a series of test images when it captured this view of the moon in July, 2015.
NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC), a four megapixel CCD camera and telescope on the DSCOVR satellite orbiting 1 million miles (1.6 million km) from Earth, created the images used to make this animation.
From its position between the sun and Earth, DSCOVR conducts its primary mission of real-time solar wind monitoring for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Read more about this image from NASA
Still image of July, 2015 capture by DSCOVR satellite of moon and Earth. Image via NASA/NOAA
Bottom line: In July 2015 – while testing a spaceborne camera – a satellite caught images of the moon crossing the Earth’s face. The images show the moon’s far side, the side never seen from Earth.
from EarthSky http://ift.tt/1NaJbJy
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