Internationalisation

Sunday 20 March 2016

THE NEVER SEEN DARK SIDE OF THE MOON!

Watch this interesting shots of the moon! 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. 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. DSCOVR project scientist Adam Szabo, broke it down, "Our planet is a truly brilliant object in dark space compared to the lunar surface.”



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