{"id":12926,"date":"2016-07-21T15:02:02","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T19:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=12926"},"modified":"2016-07-21T15:02:02","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T19:02:02","slug":"video-the-dance-of-the-earth-and-moon-as-seen-by-dscovr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=12926","title":{"rendered":"Video: The dance of the Earth and Moon as seen by DSCOVR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NOAA&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nesdis.noaa.gov\/DSCOVR\/\" target=\"_d\">DSCOVR\u00a0(Deep Space Climate Observatory)<\/a>\u00a0spacecraft \u00a0has\u00a0a clear view of the hemisphere of the Earth facing the Sun. This can give it a great view of the Moon and Earth together. In the video below, I concantenated <a href=\"http:\/\/epic.gsfc.nasa.gov\/galleries\/\" target=\"_blank\">three videos<\/a> produced by the <a href=\"http:\/\/epic.gsfc.nasa.gov\/epic.html\" target=\"_d\">EPIC (Earth Polychromatic Camera)<\/a>\u00a0 on DSCOVR, two of which show the Moon crossing the face of the Earth and one showing the Earth eclipsing the Moon.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M1LEAd3apvo?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The reason that the DSCOVR spacecraft can obtain such views is because it sits a million miles away from Earth on the L1 Lagrange point (see diagram below). L1\u00a0is one of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Operations\/What_are_Lagrange_points\" target=\"_blank\">five Lagrange spots<\/a> where an object can remain fixed relative to the earth\u00a0due to the counterbalancing pulls of the Sun and Earth&#8217;s gravitational forces and the inertia of the object.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/l1_DSCOVR_diagram1.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"12927\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?attachment_id=12927\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/l1_DSCOVR_diagram1.png\" data-orig-size=\"701,395\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"l1_DSCOVR_diagram[1]\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/l1_DSCOVR_diagram1.png\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12927\" src=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/l1_DSCOVR_diagram1.png\" alt=\"l1_DSCOVR_diagram[1]\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/l1_DSCOVR_diagram1.png 701w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/l1_DSCOVR_diagram1-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><em>Diagram of DSCOVR \u00a0at the L1 point. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nesdis.noaa.gov\/DSCOVR\/mission.html\" target=\"_blank\">Credits NOAA<\/a>).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here is a new video that shows a time lapse of one year of DSCOVR images of Earth:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CFrP6QfbC2g?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOAA&#8217;s\u00a0DSCOVR\u00a0(Deep Space Climate Observatory)\u00a0spacecraft \u00a0has\u00a0a clear view of the hemisphere of the Earth facing the Sun. This can give it a great view of the Moon and Earth together. In the video below, I concantenated three videos produced by the EPIC (Earth Polychromatic Camera)\u00a0 on DSCOVR, two of which show the Moon crossing the face &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=12926\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video: The dance of the Earth and Moon as seen by DSCOVR<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27,31,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eyes-in-the-sky","category-solar-science","category-space-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-3mu","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11140,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=11140","url_meta":{"origin":12926,"position":0},"title":"Video: Watch the Moon cross the face of Earth","author":"TopSpacer","date":"August 5, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Great views of the Moon transiting across the face of the Earth have been taken by\u00a0the DSCOVR\u00a0science spacecraft, which was launched to the Earth-Sun Lagrange point L-1 back in February on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. \u00a0From a Million Miles: The Moon Crossing the Face of Earth Click for larger\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Eyes in the Sky&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Eyes in the Sky","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=27"},"img":{"alt_text":"epicearthmoonstill[1]","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/epicearthmoonstill1-1024x1024.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":11603,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=11603","url_meta":{"origin":12926,"position":1},"title":"Daily views of Earth from the DSCOVR spacecraft","author":"TopSpacer","date":"October 19, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Via the DSCOVR\u00a0spacecraft, you\u00a0can now see daily images\u00a0of the full side of the earth facing the sun: Daily Views of Earth Available on New NASA Website NASA launched a new website Monday so the world can see images of the full, sunlit side of the Earth every day. 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