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 New images released from NOAA’s satellite DSCOVR shows the moon crossing in front of Earth. (NASA) 
  
 NASA just released a pretty amazing GIF from a brand new, solar wind-monitoring satellite DSCOVR. From one million miles away, the satellite captured the far side of the moon as it passed in front of Earth on July 16. 
  
 While DSCOVR’s main objective is to provide solar wind data for NOAA’s space weather forecasts, it has a remarkable telescope and high-resolution camera that is trained toward Earth. DSCOVR arrived at its final orbiting place just a few weeks ago, after it was launched into space in February. But as the satellite has been getting comfortable in its new orbit, DSCOVR has been wowing us with full-disk images of our home planet. 
  
 We never get to see the far side of the moon because although our lunar satellite is orbiting Earth, its position is “tidally locked.” Unlike Earth’s rotation around the sun, the moon is in synchronous orbit which means we always see the same moon night in and night out. 
  
 [New satellite transmits first full image of Earth since 1972] 
  
 “It is surprising how much brighter Earth is than the moon,” said Adam Szabo, DSCOVR project scientist at NASA. “Our planet is a truly brilliant object in dark space compared to the lunar surface.” 
  
 Even from such a distance, DSCOVR is seeing Earth’s weather patterns in incredible resolution. As the Earth rotates and the moon passes in front, you’ll see a very powerful hurricane off the west coast of Mexico. That’s Hurricane Dolores, which peaked as a category 4 with winds of 130 mph on July 13. 
  
 (NASA, modified by CWG) 
  
 You’ll notice some red and green artifacts in the images, NASA says, but this is normal and the frames are unaltered. The natural color image product is actually the combination of three monochrome channels — red, green and blue. 
  
 [Satellite DSCOVR to monitor potentially damaging solar winds] 
  
 “Combining three images taken about 30 seconds apart as the moon moves produces a slight but noticeable camera artifact on the right side of the moon,” NASA writes. “Because the moon has moved in relation to the Earth between the time the first (red) and last (green) exposures were made, a thin green offset appears on the right side of the moon when the three exposures are combined. This natural lunar movement also produces a slight red and blue offset on the left side of the moon in these unaltered images.” 
  
 A previous version of the image caption above said that DSCOVR was a NASA satellite. It is actually a NOAA satellite with NASA’s “EPIC” camera on board. DSCOVR’s primary mission is to provide data for NOAA’s space weather forecasts. ||||| NASA's Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) has captured a view of the moon that is impossible to see from Earth—the "dark side," illuminated as it passes between our planet and the Sun. The images were made by DSCOVR's four megapixel Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC), from the satellite's position a million miles away from the Earth on July 16. 
  
 Though this is not the first time the far side of the moon has been captured, it is the first illuminated view from this distance. The far side was first seen and recorded by the Soviet Luna 3 spacecraft in 1959. It has since been recorded and photographed in several NASA missions, including the Apollo 8 crew who were the first humans to see this side of the moon. 
  
 “It is surprising how much brighter Earth is than the moon," Adam Szabo, DSCOVR project scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, said in a statement . "Our planet is a truly brilliant object in dark space compared to the lunar surface.” 
  
 DSCOVR was launched on Feb. 11 from Cape Canaveral, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle. Beginning next month, the satellite will provide daily color images to the public of the surface of the Earth just 12 to 36 hours from the time they are captured. ||||| Just a few days ago I wrote about the DSCOVR satellite delivering gorgeous views of the Earth from space, but it just massively one-upped itself: Here’s an animation of the Moon passing in front of the Earth as seen by the satellite’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera, or EPIC! And it’s even cooler than that: In the animation, you’re seeing the fully illuminated far side of the Moon! 
  
 Yegads. 
  
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 The Deep Space Climate Observatory, or DSCOVR, was launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in February. It was put into an orbit around the Sun that’s about 1.5 million kilometers smaller than Earth’s, in a direction toward the Sun. This region of space is called the first Lagrange point, or L1 point, and due to a quirk of gravity this is a stable configuration, like sitting in the trough between two hills. At this spot, DSCOVR points toward the Earth with the Sun behind the satellite, so it perpetually sees the sunlit day-side of the Earth. Update, Aug. 5, 2015: Oops! I meant to add a link to a description I did of Lagrange points, because they're cool. Also, technically, the L1 point is metastable, not stable; if nudged, an object there will fall away from the L1 point. 
  
 Diagram by NOAA 
  
 The Moon goes around the Earth once a month on an orbit tilted to the Earth’s orbit around the Sun. DSCOVR is four times farther away from the Earth than the Moon is, so it’s well outside the Moon’s orbit. Twice a year or so everything lines up just right, and Earth, Moon, and DSCOVR form a perfect line. If the timing is right, DSCOVR will then see the Moon pass directly in front of or behind the Earth, what astronomers call a transit. 
  
 Phil Plait Phil Plait writes Slate’s Bad Astronomy blog and is an astronomer, public speaker, science evangelizer, and author of Death From the Skies! 
  
 In this case, with the Moon in front of the Earth, DSCOVR sees the Moon’s far side, the side always facing away from the Earth, where we landlubbers never see it. That gives the Moon an odd appearance, since there are fewer large dark features on the far side than the one we see. 
  
 Also, we tend to think of the Moon as being very bright, silvery, and shiny, but in fact the Moon’s surface is quite dark. At night, with nothing to challenge it, the Moon looks incredibly bright, but in reality the surface is quite gray. You can see that in the DSCOVR animation, too. 
  
 I’ll note this isn’t the first time we’ve seen such a transit from space; back in 2008 the EPOXI spacecraft took a very similar series of shots. This one is much higher resolution, of course, with everything looking much sharper. Here’s the EPOXI animation: 
  
 Still pretty neat. I’ve been interested in the DSCOVR mission for a long time, ever since Al Gore proposed it (as Triana) as a way to raise awareness of our planet and its environment. I think that’s a fantastic idea, and animations like this are a lovely and exciting bonus. Remember, that’s us down there, every single one of us on (and off) the planet. |||||
NASA has a new toy in space, and it's already delivered an awe-inspiring view of the moon and Earth. The space agency has produced a GIF—see it here—of the moon passing in front of our planet. A few things make it unique: The view is taken from a million miles away, courtesy of the DISCOVR satellite that launched in February, and it gives us a good look at the "dark side of the moon"—the side we never see from Earth, explains Time. "The resulting GIF is so amazing that it's almost unbelievable," observes a post at the Verge. The images also reinforce something we Earthlings tend to forget: "At night, with nothing to challenge it, the Moon looks incredibly bright, but in reality the surface is quite gray," writes Phil Plait at Slate. The new satellite's main job is to collect weather data, notes the Washington Post, which points out a hurricane off the coast of Mexico in the GIF, but occasional images like these will emerge. “It is surprising how much brighter Earth is than the moon,” says a NASA scientist on the project. “Our planet is a truly brilliant object in dark space compared to the lunar surface.” (Click to read about Buzz Aldrin's weird travel voucher after his moon voyage.)