Full Earth, Full Moon . ... Credit Copyright: NASA , NOAA/DSCOVR Explanation: The Moon was new on July 16. ... But on that date a million miles away , the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) spacecraft's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) captured this view of an apparently Full Moon crossing in front of a Full Earth. In fact, seen from the spacecraft's position beyond the Moon's orbit and between Earth and Sun, the fully illuminated lunar hemisphere is the less familiar farside . ...