A newly released image by NASA shows the far side of moon. The image is quite beautiful showing the far side of the moon being illuminated by the sun as it crosses between the DSCOVR spacecraft's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC)) and earth.

Scientists said the image was taken between 12.50 pm and 5.45 pm PDT on July 16. The Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) orbits the sun at a distance of one million miles from earth. Around twice a year, DSOCVR will take such images twice a year.

Due to the vantage point of earth, we are able to see just one side of the moon. But it was luck that such images were clicked from a satellite located between earth-moon system and the sun. Adam Szabo, a heliophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, was of the view, "The lunar transit is the back side of the moon - very different looking than the familiar face -- no man in the moon, no mares, no cheese".

Adam said initially he was surprised to see how dark the moon looked. When moon is seen from earth, it looks very bright in the sky. Therefore, it was quite surprising to see the dull side of the moon.

Main aim of the DSCOVR is to constantly monitor stream of particles that originate from the sun. It looks out for massive outbursts of material known as coronal mass ejections that could affect power grids.