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[maquiladora]

Larger gif here.

A NASA camera aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured a unique view of the moon as it moved in front of the sunlit side of Earth last month. The series of test images shows the fully illuminated “dark side” of the moon that is never visible from Earth.

The 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. From its position between the sun and Earth, DSCOVR conducts its primary mission of real-time solar wind monitoring for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

These images were taken between 3:50 p.m. and 8:45 p.m. EDT on July 16, showing the moon moving over the Pacific Ocean near North America. The North Pole is in the upper left corner of the image, reflecting the orbital tilt of Earth from the vantage point of the spacecraft.

EPIC’s “natural color” images of Earth are generated by combining three separate monochrome exposures taken by the camera in quick succession. EPIC takes a series of 10 images using different narrowband spectral filters -- from ultraviolet to near infrared -- to produce a variety of science products. The red, green and blue channel images are used in these color images.

http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard...nasa-camera-shows-moon-crossing-face-of-earth

 

[Tuck]

That is so cool. I love seeing stuff like this.

 

[Escape Goat]

Pretty neat. Just 500 years ago we were sailing around the world in wooden ships looking up at the moon.

 

[HarryKS]

Looks like a shop.

 

[The Lamonster]

crazy and awesome. thanks for sharing

 

[Kaako]

That is pretty dope. From a perspective you don't see everyday.

 

[Randolph Freelander]

That's no moon.

 

[A-V-B]

Oh, hey, Moon. What's up.

Okay, bye.

 

[NEOPARADIGM]

why don't the clouds move?

 

[Vulcano's assistant]

This the reason you can't win (or lose) with space stuff cgi, the reality already looks so alien it seems fake.

 

[Ventara]

Pretty neat. Just 500 years ago we were sailing around the world in wooden ships looking up at the moon.

For real. Gets me excited at what humanity might be doing 1000 years from now.

 

[Chinner]

why don't the clouds move?

It's fake, everybody knows the moon is not real and is invented by the white house to control the middle class.

 

[Verdre]

why don't the clouds move?

They do. Just watch the hole in the clouds just above the moon expand.

 

[Battersea Power Station]

Cool!

Why does the moon seem so "dark," as in coal-ish gray, when it's silvery white from down here?

 

[adj_noun]

Riiight when it hits center, BOOM! Sad clown face.

 

[Wreav]

That GIF got me so fucking hard.

Space is the realist thing, brehs. Sit and bask in the awesomeness of life and existence.

 

[Escape Goat]

It's fake, everybody knows the moon is not real and is invented by the white house to control the middle class.

What middle class?

 

[LQX]

Looks fake.

 

[freeofgreed]

Looks like a shop.

Lol exactly what I thought.

 

[jwk94]

That looks really fake.

 

[~Devil Trigger~]

Looks fake.

The universe is fake

 

[empanada]

Lol exactly what I thought.

Hahah, same, and a bad job at that.

 

[Escape Goat]

Do we really know what a genuine shot of the moon crossing in front of the earth would look like?

 

[Nokterian]

Absolutely amazing to see this!

 

[HORRORSHØW]

there's a little white blip near the top/center when the moon's 3/4 across.

aliens, man

 

[RustyNails]

I thought the earth was flat?

 

[ThatGuyAgain]

Looks like it is bouncing off Cabo San Lucas.

 

[Veritigo_X]

I thought the earth was flat?

It's actually hollow. I can't believe people believe that flat earth nonsense.

 

[SirMossyBloke]

Whats the shiny bit in the centre of the earth that doesn't move as it spins? It makes it look like a reflection.

 

[Sesuadra]

no elephants or giant turtle?

fake.

 

[Escape Goat]

It's actually hollow.

With a creamy milk chocolate center

 

[Skellig Gra]

Looks like a shop.

My first thought.

 

[super-famicom]

The universe is fake

We're all plugged into the Matrix.

 

[toxicgonzo]

I thought the earth was flat?

NASA's camera lens is cylindrically shaped so it makes flat objects appear round.

 

[Verdre]

Whats the shiny bit in the centre of the earth that doesn't move as it spins? It makes it look like a reflection.

I'd guess a reflection of the sun on all that water.

 

[The Albatross]

WHERES THE AMERICAN FLAG

PROOF

 

[Dennis]

Fake. I can see the pixels, NASA.

 

[FantasticMrFoxdie]

Nice try NASA

 

[StopMakingSense]

Whats the shiny bit in the centre of the earth that doesn't move as it spins? It makes it look like a reflection.

It's a reflection.

 

[Escape Goat]

It's a reflection.

Its an Obama demon.

 

[bennywhatever]

The moon looks like clipart.

 

[adj_noun]

It's actually hollow. I can't believe people believe that flat earth nonsense.

That's actually why the Earth floats in its orbit. If it weren't hollow like bird bones, it would drop straight to the bottom of the galaxy.

 

[Veritigo_X]

That's actually why the Earth floats in its orbit. If it weren't hollow like bird bones, it would drop straight to the bottom of the galaxy.

smh. Your so called "galaxy" is actually the center of the earth. We're on the inside of the earth. It's all on YouTube.

 

[maquiladora]

why don't the clouds move?

Because its captured over just 5 hours. Its not easy to see large cloud structures appear to move much during that amount of time, from a million miles away, on a low frame rate gif when the earth itself is moving too.

If you look closely at the smaller cloud structures in the Pacific off the west coast of the US you can see some changes over time.

 

[xbhaskarx]

That looks more fake than the moon landing.

 

[zephervack]

How does the moon look like from earth at that point in time. All the light is hitting the moon from behind, so the part facing the earth is just complete darkness right? We dont see it at all?

 

[maquiladora]

How does the moon look like from earth at that point in time. All the light is hitting the moon from behind, so the part facing the earth is just complete darkness right? We dont see it at all?

Its called a New Moon.

 

[Kenstar]

How does the moon look like from earth at that point in time. All the light is hitting the moon from behind, so the part facing the earth is just complete darkness right? We dont see it at all?

Yep, 16th was a new moon
http://www.moonconnection.com/moon-july-2015.phtml

 

[DiipuSurotu]

How come the moon isn't rotating?

 

[Ziffles]

How come the moon isn't rotating?

Not sure if serious, but the moon is tidally locked to Earth.