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July 04, 2019

a solar eclipse as seen from the moon

Earthrise-eclipseChina's tiny DSLWP-B lunar orbiter will be destroyed soon to prevent collisions with future lunar missions, but it was pointed back towards Earth during Tuesday's total solar eclipse.  Here''s one of the images.

Note imaging is not a primary function of the orbiter so it only has a simple 640x480 camera.

05:36 in just cool, Science |

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