NASA took a pic of the dark side of the moon fyi
Yeah, isn’t that a cool picture? It’s the one someone showed me to point out what color the moon really is compared to the Earth! They both have the same amount of sunlight on them here.
The moon’s not white! It’s concrete-gray! It only looks so shiny when compared to the void of space!
I love learning things I didn’t expect to learn. Like when I learned that it’s called the “dark side” of the moon because it’s the side we don’t see, not because sunlight never hits it.
she's mooning us
The satellite-borne camera that provided the image above is called EPIC: DSCOVR, and sends us new pictures of Earth every day. Its website is here —
Daily natural color imagery of Earth from the EPIC camera onboard the DSCOVR spacecraft.
…The satellite also provides early warning of bad “space weather” and does much other specialized weather-oriented stuff. Here’s the NOAA’s info page about it.
About the Mission The Deep Space Climate Observatory, or DSCOVR, was launched in February of 2015, and maintains the nation's real-time sola
