The moon just photobombed Earth.

A NASA camera aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite as it passed between the satellite and Earth, according to NASA.

“For the second time in the life of DSCOVR, the moon moved between the spacecraft and Earth,” said Adam Szabo, DSCOVR project scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. “The project recorded this event on July 5 with the same cadence and spatial resolution as the first ‘lunar photobomb’ of last year.”

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The photos were taken by NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC), a four-megapixel CCD camera and telescope on the DSCOVR satellite, which is orbiting 1 million miles from Earth and gives scientists by continuously viewing the sunlit side of the planet, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

DSCOVR's Mission

The satellite's primary mission is to monitor real-time solar wind patterns for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, providing scientific observations of ozone, vegetation, cloud height and aerosols in the atmosphere.

From its vantage point, the satellite can provide advanced solar measurements and early warnings of potentially dangerous space weather events, acting as a "solar storm buoy in deep space," according to NOAA.

The recent images,taken over a four-hour period on July 4 into July 5, show the moon moving over the Indian and Pacific oceans. The North Pole is at the top of the images.

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DSCOVR, a partnership between NASA, NOAA and the U.S. Air Force, is kept in a complex, non-recurring orbit that intersects the lunar orbit about four times a year. However, the moon only appears between the satellite and Earth once or twice a year,depending on the relative orbital phases of the moon and DSCOVR.

The last time EPIC captured the moon photobombing the Earth was on July 16, 2015.

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