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Moon Transits Earth in Eye-poppingly EPIC View from 1 Million Miles Away
This animation shows images of the far side of the moon, illuminated by the sun, as it crosses between the DISCOVR spacecraft’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) camera and telescope, and the Earth – one million miles away. Credit: NASA/NOAA
An eye-poppingly ‘EPIC’ view of the sunlit far side of the Moon transiting the sunlit side of Earth was recently captured by NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) camera from one million miles away. “Wow!” – is an understatement!
The stunning animation of the Moon crossing in front of the Earth, shown above, and seemingly unlike anything else, was created from a series of images taken in July by NASA’s EPIC camera flying aboard the orbiting Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite, according to a NASA statement.(…)
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Post tags: Deep Space Climate Observatory, DSCOVR satellite, Earth, Earth Observation, EPIC, Falcon 9 rocket, goresat, L1, L1 Lagrange Point, NASA, NOAA, solar wind, Space Weather, Space Weather Forecasting, SpaceX, USAF
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