Animation Features Actual Satellite Images of the Far Side of the Moon (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Animation Features Actual Satellite Images of the Far Side of the Moon

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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 -- one million miles away.

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Credits: NASA/NOAA

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