Here's What Moon Passing Earth Looks Like One Million Miles Away
- 9 years ago
NASA's Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite, or "DSCOVR" for short, recently captured a series of images showing the dark side of the moon moving across a very sunlit side of the Earth.
It almost looks like a low-budget special effect, but it's simply something we've never seen in such detail before.
NASA's Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite, or "DSCOVR" for short, recently captured a series of images showing the dark side of the moon moving across a very sunlit side of the Earth.
The camera used to capture the images only has four megapixels and sits aboard the DSCOVR satellite at an orbit of around a million miles from Earth.
A similar view of the Earth and moon was captured in 2008—but from 31 million miles away when the Earth was only slightly illuminated.
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It almost looks like a low-budget special effect, but it's simply something we've never seen in such detail before.
NASA's Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite, or "DSCOVR" for short, recently captured a series of images showing the dark side of the moon moving across a very sunlit side of the Earth.
The camera used to capture the images only has four megapixels and sits aboard the DSCOVR satellite at an orbit of around a million miles from Earth.
A similar view of the Earth and moon was captured in 2008—but from 31 million miles away when the Earth was only slightly illuminated.
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