By Cheyenne Macdonald For Dailymail.com
Published: 22:23 GMT, 5 February 2019 | Updated: 23:20 GMT, 5 February 2019
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We may never be able to directly look upon the far side of the moon from our vantage points here on Earth, but a breathtaking new image could be the next best thing.
The incredible photo captured by radio amateurs using the Chinese Longjiang-2 satellite shows not only the entirety of the moon’s far side, but Earth sitting behind it in the distance, too.
The amateur team downloaded the image with the Dwingeloo Radio Telescope in the Netherlands after their satellite snapped the view.
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The incredible photo captured by radio amateurs using the Chinese Longjiang-2 satellite shows not only the entirety of the moon’s far side, but Earth sitting behind it in the distance, too
The far side of the moon - colloquially known as the dark side - actually gets as much light as the near side but always faces away from Earth.
The far side of the Moon was first observed in 1959, when the Soviet Luna 3 spacecraft returned the first images.
In 1968, astronauts aboard the Apollo 8 spacecraft were the first humans to set eyes on the far side in person as they orbited the moon.
Since then, several missions by NASA and other space agencies have imaged the lunar far side.
China's Chang'e-4 mission that landed in January
