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APOD Robot wrote very early in the morning on March 10:
Tomorrow's picture: East of Java

revloren wrote:Was it just luck that DSCOVR was just in the right place to capture a 'full earth' during the eclipse?

gerden wrote:Can anyone tell me, why we don't see the moon in the photograph?
As e.g. compared to here:
http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/fro ... e-of-earth

Thanks in advance

Simon

Ann wrote:

APOD Robot wrote very early in the morning on March 10:
Tomorrow's picture: East of Java

Look, someone spilled their Java in the ocean!

Ann

gerden wrote:
Can anyone tell me, why we don't see the moon in the photograph?
As e.g. compared to here:
http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/fro ... e-of-earth

http://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/DSCOVR/ wrote:
<<The DSCOVR spacecraft orbits around the L1 Lagrange point directly between Earth and the sun. This orbit keeps the spacecraft near the L1 point and requires only occasional small maneuvers, but its orbit can vary from 4 to 15 degrees away from the sun-Earth line over several years.>>

Ann wrote:

APOD Robot wrote:
very early in the morning on March 10:
Tomorrow's picture: East of Java

Look, someone spilled their Java in the ocean!

• So we Sea. (Must fix that shaky Sunda Shelf some day.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Sea wrote:

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<<The Java Sea is a large shallow sea on the Sunda Shelf formed as sea levels rose at the end of the last ice age. The Java Sea lies between the Indonesian islands of Borneo to the north, Java to the south, Sumatra to the west, and Sulawesi to the east. Karimata Strait to its northwest links it to the South China Sea. The sea measures about 1,500 km east-west by 420 km north-south and occupies a total surface area of 433,000 square km. It covers the southern section of the 1,790,000-square-km Sunda Shelf. A shallow sea, it has a mean depth of 46 metres. The almost uniform flatness of the sea bottom and the presence of drainage channels (traceable to the mouths of island rivers) indicate that the Sunda Shelf was once a stable, dry, low-relief land area (peneplain) above which were left standing a few monadnocks (granite hills that by virtue of their resistance to erosion form the present islands). The southern section of the seafloor has long been recognized as geologically similar to northern Java, where oil fields occur and extend under the sea. Prospects are also favourable for oil fields in the waters off southeast Kalimantan. As the site of successful exploration for petroleum and natural gas, the Java Sea has become the basis of Indonesia’s export program.>>

Beyond wrote:

Ann wrote:

APOD Robot wrote very early in the morning on March 10:
Tomorrow's picture: East of Java

Look, someone spilled their Java in the ocean!

Ann

Good one, Ann. Yes, someone is mooning over their spilled Java.

Boomer12k wrote:

gerden wrote:Can anyone tell me, why we don't see the moon in the photograph?
As e.g. compared to here:
http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/fro ... e-of-earth

Thanks in advance

Simon

The Moon is still off to the left...and it is not an animation...

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BobStein-VisiBone wrote: ...
Boomer, I first thought the moon must be to the left since its shadow is left of the sun's reflection point, the bright spot near the center. But now I think the moon was actually above and right of the Earth...

Chris Peterson wrote:

revloren wrote:Was it just luck that DSCOVR was just in the right place to capture a 'full earth' during the eclipse?

No. It's always very near the Earth-Sun L₁ point- that is, on a line between the Sun and Earth. All it ever sees is a full Earth. And had the eclipse followed a slightly different path, it might even have captured the Moon in the same frame, since DSCOVR is quite a bit farther away than the Moon.