Earth  ID: 11924

Million Mile Moon Shot

Story by Rob Gutro Released on August 20, 2015
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A NASA camera captures a dramatic view of Earth and the moon from 1 million miles away.
It’s rare to see images taken from space that have both Earth and the moon in a single frame. But in July 2015, a NASA camera aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured shots of the moon as it moved in front of the sunlit side of our planet. The series of test images were captured by NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC), a four megapixel CCD camera and telescope on the DSCOVR satellite orbiting 1 million miles from Earth. EPIC maintains a constant view of the fully illuminated Earth as it rotates, providing scientific observations of ozone, vegetation, cloud height and aerosols in the atmosphere. Once EPIC begins regular observations in September, the camera will provide a series of Earth images allowing study of daily variations over the entire globe. Watch the video to see a time-lapse assembled from the images.
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This time-lapse, assembled from 20 images taken by the DSCOVR satellite, shows the moon crossing Earth on July 16, 2015.
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This is the first image of the entire sunlit side of Earth taken by DSCOVR. The image was acquired on July 6, 2015.
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DSCOVR orbits between Earth and the sun, at what is called the L1 Lagrangian point in space.
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An artist's rendering of the DSCOVR satellite.
 

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Lead Writer:
Rob Gutro (NASA/GSFC)

Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
DSCOVR video and images courtesy of NASA/NOAA
Orbit diagram courtesy of NASA/WMAP Science Team
DSCOVR satellite rendering courtesy of NOAA

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