NASA photographs the rare occurrence of the moon crossing the face of the Earth from a million miles away

This animation features actual satellite images of the far side of the moon, illuminated by the sun, as it crosses between the DSCOVR spacecraft’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) and telescope, and the Earth – one million miles away.

An incredible photograph taken aboard the Deep Sea Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite is doing the rounds on social media, ten years after it was taken, highlighting our everlasting obsession with the cosmos.

The DSCOVR satellite captured the unique view of the moon as it moved in front of the sunlit side of the Earth. The series of test images showed the fully illuminated “dark side” of the moon that is never visible from Earth.