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  • NASA's DSCOVR satellite shows far side of the moon in different light

    NASA's Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) spacecraft has snapped rare views of the Moon transiting across Earth's disk. The images grant us a seldom-seen look at the dark side of our planet's nearest celestial companion. The DSCOVR spacecraft is positioned at lagrange point 1, one million miles distant from its homeworld with a mission to constantly monitor the fully-lit face of our planet, providing near real-time solar wind observations. Last month the spacecraft returned its first natural color view of Earth – a category of image also known as a blue marble.
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