Posted on 07/11/2016 8:26:24 PM PDT by BenLurkin
It stands to reason that if you put an Earth-observing satellite beyond the moon's orbit, there might be the chance that occasionally the moon may drift in front. And in the case of the joint NOAA/NASA/U.S. Air Force Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), this is the the second time the moon has made an Earth transit spectacle.
"For the second time in the life of DSCOVR, the moon moved between the spacecraft and Earth," said Adam Szabo, DSCOVR project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., in a statement "The project recorded this event on July 5 with the same cadence and spatial resolution as the first 'lunar photobomb' of last year."
(Excerpt) Read more at seeker.com ...
Look up the word demean. Shouldn’t take you more than 3 seconds.
http://sservi.nasa.gov/?question=3318
More craters on the far side because many on the near side were wiped out when lava flows created the "seas" (maria).
Also kind of gives you an idea how dazzling the Earth would appear from the Moon. Not only is it much brighter, it is much larger.
Ah, so the magnification is large from afar. I got the impression from the article that it was somewhere reasonably close “on the other side of the moon”, such that it didn’t jibe with Apollo earth shots at all.
Thanks for the heads up!
Let me get this straight, we were mooned by..... the moon?
Albedo is a more greyish albino.
Curious, what’s a Wikipedia?
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Great video. The moon looks to be the same color (like cement dust) as moon rocks I’ve seen in museums.
So we got mooned by the moon? Who knew?
Why would the moon be so dark?
The sun is shining on it.
It’s much brighter when you look at it from earth.
I’m STILL waiting for a pic of the dark side of the sun.
Dark Sides Matter
I get albedo mixed up with albumin and albino.
Actually, all the craters, mare, & other features on the far side of the moon have Russian or Leninist names. The USSR was the first to send a satellite to photograph the unseen side in 1959. Therefor they got to name everything that mankind saw for the first time. “Soviet Mountains” is my favorite.
Probably no “Trotsky Crater” out there.
;^)
*ping*
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