A photo showing the Moon's far side, with tiny Earth in the background taken by a camera built by four young Chinese engineers has featured in the February 15 issue of American academic magazine Science.

The picture of the Moon and Earth is published on the Science magazine. [Photo: CCTV.com]

The image had been widely spread among international mainstream media before it was published in Science Magazine, reported China Central Television of China Media Group. Some foreign media even considered the photo as the best one that captures the stunning backside image of the Moon with Earth. The picture offers a rare perspective of the Earth and Moon together.

The image was captured at the beginning of February by a simple camera on board the China's Longjiang-2 satellite, which entered the Moon's orbit in June 2018. This is the first time that Longjiang-2 has captured the entire Moon and Earth in one shot.

The simple camera was built by four Chinese young engineers coming from Harbin Institute of Technology. All of them were born in the 1990s, with the oldest being 28 years old, while the youngest had just celebrated his 20th birthday.

Undated photo shows Tai Mier and the microcamera made by him. He built this camera at the age 20. [Photo: CCTV.com]

The four engineers are Wei Mingchuan, Hu Chaoran, Tai Mier, and Zhao Yuhao. Tai, born in 1996, was the designer of the camera that snapped the stunning image.