NASA shows the reverse side of the moon – REGNUM

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Washington, August 7, 2015, 09:43 – REGNUM

The US aerospace agency NASA has published on its website pictures of the unique side of the Moon flying on the background of the Earth.

The photos were made by the spacecraft Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) of Lagrange point of the Earth-Sun (objects in it equally attracted to both cosmic bodies). At this point, with little body mass can remain stationary relative to the gravitational “giants».

As the site says NASA, pictures taken on July 16 shows the full “dark side” of the moon, which is never visible from Earth.

DSCOVR – an observatory to monitor the Earth’s atmosphere, the solar wind and coronal mass ejections of the Sun, it was launched in 2015.

Note that the first side of the Moon was photographed Soviet AMC ” Luna-3 “October 7, 1959.