See the ‘Dark Side’ of the Moon Illuminated From a Million Miles Away
NASA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) has captured a view of the moon that is impossible to see from Earth.
NASA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) has captured a view of the moon that is impossible to see from Earth.
“Earth rocks! Let’s protect it. Happy #AsteroidDay from @space_station! #YearInSpace” -via Twitter on June 30, 2015
TIME is following Kelly’s mission in the new series, A Year In Space. Watch the first two episodes here.
Photo: Scott Kelly/NASA
In this parting image, the New Horizons spacecraft captured a darkened Pluto backlit by the sun—illuminating the hydrocarbon haze circling the dwarf planet for the first time.
Photo: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
New Horizons found a second mountain range in Pluto’s ‘heart’
Photo: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
From the famed Apollo 17 image to DSCOVR’s most recent addition, see the history of the world’s biggest selfie.
NASA released the first image of Earth from its Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite on Monday. The image shows a sunlit Earth from one million miles away.
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Messenger has been orbiting Mercury since 2011, and on Thursday it ran out of fuel and met its end.