A camera aboard Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite NASA recorded for 4 hours on 16 July, the passage of the Moon around the Earth in the Pacific Ocean near North America.
The image was taken by the camera and telescope Epic (Polychromatic Earth Imaging Camera), one of the instruments of the satellite, which is 1.5 million kilometers from Earth.
The North Pole is in the upper left corner of the image, reflecting the orbital inclination of the Earth from the point of view of the satellite.
In the picture you can see the side of the moon is not visible from Earth. The first time that humans were the face of our satellite was in 1959, when they were sent the first images from the Soviet spacecraft Luna 3.
Since then, several NASA missions have photographed the lunar far side in great detail. It is easy to see that face due to a phenomenon called synchronous rotation, because its orbital period is the same as its rotation around its axis.
In May 2008 Deep Impact spacecraft NASA captured a similar view of Earth and Moon at a distance of 31 million miles away. The series of images show the moon passing in front of our planet, when it was partially illuminated by the sun.
The images in “natural colors” Epic Earth generated by combining three separate monochrome exposures taken by the camera and in rapid succession . Epic takes a series of 10 images using different spectral filters narrow band-from ultraviolet to infrared cercano- to produce a variety of products for science. The images of the red, green and blue channels are used in these color images.
The Dark Side of the Moon has no large plains, dark, basaltic, which They are so prominent on the side facing the Earth. The major features are the far side Moscoviense Sea in the upper left and the crater Tsiolkovskiy in the bottom left. A thin sliver of the shaded area of the moon is visible on your right side.
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