The Artemis-1 Orion spacecraft watches Earth rise above the Moon
Earth rises above the shadowed moon like a blue beacon in a newly launched video from NASA’s Artemis 1 mission.
With out crew Orion The spacecraft took the footage on Monday (November 21), the identical day it carried out a an essential engine burn throughout a flyby of the moon. 5 days earlier, “Orion” launched into house Artemis 1NASA’s first flight Artemis program.
A two-minute video is proven Earth slowly seems from behind month as Orion flies overhead. The moon is totally invisible within the shadow, so plainly our planet has come out of the black void.
The video was captured at 8:05 a.m. EST (1:05 p.m. GMT) on Monday, about six minutes after Orion reconnected with NASA’s Deep House Community antennas following a lunar maneuver, company officers mentioned in an outline to video on YouTube (opens in a brand new tab).
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The video was transmitted to Earth past the an epic reside which passed off round that point, which centered on seeing our planet as “pale blue dot” deep in house minutes after Orion reconnected with Earth.
“You see the Earth; you see the home. You see your self on this picture proper there when Orion is 232,000 miles away [373,000 kilometers] from planet Earth,” NASA spokeswoman Sandra Jones mentioned throughout a reside broadcast of Orion’s flyby of the moon on NASA TV.
Stay viewers on Monday additionally noticed Earth cross behind the moon moments earlier than Orion misplaced contact, as anticipated, to carry out an engine maneuver on the far aspect of the moon, the place radio waves from our planet can’t attain.
The Artemis 1 mission is testing the readiness of Orion and NASA’s House Launch System’s huge rocket for future Artemis missions, which is able to proceed from Artemis 2 crewed mission across the moon in 2024.
Elizabeth Howell is the co-author of “Why am I taller (opens in a brand new tab)?” (ECW Press, 2022; with Canadian astronaut Dave Williams), a e book about house medication. Observe her on Twitter @howellspace (opens in a brand new tab). Observe us on Twitter @Spacedotcom (opens in a brand new tab) or Fb (opens in a brand new tab).
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