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Stunning beauty GIF animation: the Moon passing against the background of the Earth
The camera aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured a unique view of the moon, which passes against the background of the illuminated side of the Earth. A series of photos show the far side of the moon, which is never visible from our planet. You can see the Sea of Moscow in the upper left and the Tsiolkovsky crater on the lower left.
Stunning beauty GIF-animation published on the NASA website.
“It’s amazing to see how bright the Earth is than the surface of the moon,” said Adam Szabo, a DSCOVR project scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Our planet is a truly shining object in dark space, compared to the lunar surface.
The photos were taken by the Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) 4-megapixel CCD camera on board the spacecraft, using a telescope. The distance to the Earth is 1.5 million km.
DSCOVR’s primary mission is to monitor the solar wind in real time. At the same time, the satellite continuously keeps the constantly illuminated side of the Earth in view, carrying out scientific observations of ozone levels, vegetation, cloud height and aerosol pollution.
The satellite was launched in February 2015, and will begin full operation in September. After that, the camera will take daily pictures, allowing you to track changes in environmental indicators throughout the day around the world. About twice a year, both the Moon and the Earth will be shot at DSCOVR. This is the first time this has happened.
Photos taken July 16 between 15:50 and 20:45 EDT. The moon moves over the Pacific Ocean near North America. The North Pole is on the upper left, reflecting the Earth’s orbital tilt from the spacecraft’s perspective.
Photos of the passage of the Moon against the background of the Earth were first taken in 2008 by the Deep Impact spacecraft, but from a much greater distance of 50 million km.
The "natural colors" of the Earth in each of the photos are created by a combination of three monochrome images (R, B, G) taken continuously one after the other. The interval between the images is 30 seconds, the green filter was used last, because of this, a small green artifact is visible on the right side of the moon.
In general, EPIC photographs each frame with a series of 10 images with different spectral filters in different ranges, from ultraviolet to near-infrared.
Source: geektimes.ru/post/259892/
Stunning beauty GIF-animation published on the NASA website.
“It’s amazing to see how bright the Earth is than the surface of the moon,” said Adam Szabo, a DSCOVR project scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Our planet is a truly shining object in dark space, compared to the lunar surface.
The photos were taken by the Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) 4-megapixel CCD camera on board the spacecraft, using a telescope. The distance to the Earth is 1.5 million km.
DSCOVR’s primary mission is to monitor the solar wind in real time. At the same time, the satellite continuously keeps the constantly illuminated side of the Earth in view, carrying out scientific observations of ozone levels, vegetation, cloud height and aerosol pollution.
The satellite was launched in February 2015, and will begin full operation in September. After that, the camera will take daily pictures, allowing you to track changes in environmental indicators throughout the day around the world. About twice a year, both the Moon and the Earth will be shot at DSCOVR. This is the first time this has happened.
Photos taken July 16 between 15:50 and 20:45 EDT. The moon moves over the Pacific Ocean near North America. The North Pole is on the upper left, reflecting the Earth’s orbital tilt from the spacecraft’s perspective.
Photos of the passage of the Moon against the background of the Earth were first taken in 2008 by the Deep Impact spacecraft, but from a much greater distance of 50 million km.
The "natural colors" of the Earth in each of the photos are created by a combination of three monochrome images (R, B, G) taken continuously one after the other. The interval between the images is 30 seconds, the green filter was used last, because of this, a small green artifact is visible on the right side of the moon.
In general, EPIC photographs each frame with a series of 10 images with different spectral filters in different ranges, from ultraviolet to near-infrared.
Source: geektimes.ru/post/259892/
