Amazing video – Moon Crossing Face of Earth

Amazing footage of the Moon crossing the face of Earth, captured on the DSCOVR satellite orbiting 1 million miles from Earth.

Amazing footage of the Moon crossing the face of Earth, captured on a four megapixel CCD camera and telescope on the DSCOVR satellite orbiting 1 million miles from Earth.

Moon Crossing Face of Earth
Moon Crossing Face of Earth

The far side of the moon was not seen until 1959 when the Soviet Luna 3 spacecraft returned the first images. Since then, several NASA missions have imaged the lunar far side in great detail. The same side of the moon always faces an earthbound observer because the moon is tidally locked to Earth. That means its orbital period is the same as its rotation around its axis.

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.

Source: From a Million Miles Away, NASA Camera Shows Moon Crossing Face of Earth

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CW Staff
CW Staff

In the late 80s I started investigating UFOs and crop circles and joined the CCCS (Centre for Crop Circle Studies) and a local group researching strange sightings and reports along the south coast of Dorset (UK). In the early ’90s I started my own research group called SPS (Strange Phenomena Studies), this was renamed in 2004 to Cryptoworld.

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