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Spaceship Captures Epic Shot Of Moon Passing In Front OF The Earth
‘The moon
passed between NASA climate observatory and the Earth,’ Tweeted former
astronaut Rick Mastracchio this week.
‘Almost
unbelievable that this is a real photo.’’
The image
was captured by a NASA camera on board the Deep Space Climate Observatory on July
16, 2015 over the space of five hours.
A series of
test images shows the fully illuminated ‘dark side’ of the Moon that is not
visible from Earth.
The images
were acquired by NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC), a four
megapixel camera and telescope on the DSCOVR satellite, which orbits about 1
million miles from Earth. Read more >>
