The Moon's rarely-seen far side just photobombed NASA again
Rarely seen outside of Apollo mission footage or computer simulations, the far side of the Moon just photobombed NASA for the second time in a year! NASA's EPIC camera, on board the joint NASA/NOAA Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), has been aimed at Earth from around 1.6 million kilometres closer to the Sun, snapping multiple pictures of our planet nearly every day since July 6, 2015. Less than a year after EPIC's "first light" - on July 4 to July 5, 2016 - the camera has caught the far side of the Moon making a seldom-seen appearance as it passes in front of the Earth.
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