Breathtaking Photo Shows The Far Side of The Moon And Earth in a Single Shot

Author: VICTOR TANGERMANN / Source: ScienceAlert

We’ve seen it before, but never this clearly. For the first time, China’s Longjiang-2 satellite photographed the entirety of the Moon’s far side and the Earth in a single shot, Popular Mechanics reports.

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We already received images taken by the satellite of the Moon and Earth back in October. But this

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is the first that shows the Moon in its entirety.

This photo of Earth and the Lunar farside, maybe our best ever, was taken yesterday by the…

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