'The answer is lack of spatial resolution. This totally looks like a simulation, the clouds do not move over the course of 6 hours?Īccording to Szabo, that also puzzled the researchers for a bit. However, if you're into that sort of thing, the next scheduled solar eclipse is coming up on March So disappointing. When the Moon is between DSCOVR and Earth, it's not actually between the Sun and Earth and no eclipse is seen. 'The sun is a powerful radio source and any spacecraft sitting in front of the sun would have difficulty communicating with Earth,' Adam Szabo, one of the DSCOVR project scientists, tells The Verge in an email. It allows researchers to more easily receive the satellite's data. In fact, NASA purposefully keeps DSCOVR at least 4 degrees away from the Sun-Earth line - the direct path between our planet and the star. When these pictures were taken, the Sun was not directly behind the satellite. Then we can all enjoy it as we should, because it's great and sometimes we can have nice Why wasn't there a solar eclipse when this was shot? If the moon comes between the earth and sun, that is an eclipse.

Well, I may not have the strength to debate the Moon landings with anyone right now, but I can offer up some explanations about this GIF. Then again, a lot of people don't believe any of that stuff happened either. ( It's October 21st, 2015 - never forget that!) A healthy dose of skepticism is a valuable asset in an era like this.īut you'd think there'd be more trust in NASA - a space agency that has landed 12 people on the Moon, launched more than 130 Space Shuttle missions, and just recently sent a probe to a dwarf planet 4.67 billion miles away. People are constantly trying to trick us into thinking that flood waters bring sharks to neighborhood streets or that today is the day Marty McFly goes forward in time. To be fair, who can really blame them? We live in a Photoshop-manipulated world. Legbiter August 5, since when does 'epic' mean 'photoshop'? Andrew ✌ August 5, People actually believe this crap? Many who saw the GIF immediately cried foul, saying they were certain the images were Haha, so fake! DSCOVR is meant to observe Earth's climate from afar and gives us a view of our planetary system we don't often see.īut some people just can't accept the good things in life. The GIF was made from a compilation of images taken by the Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) on the DSCOVR satellite, located 1 million miles from Earth. Last week, NASA gave us a small cosmic gift - releasing a short GIF of the Moon passing in front of Earth.

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