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NASA spaceship beams back really eerie images of the moon
NASA's Orion spacecraft captured new images of the lunar surface. Credit: NASA |
When a space rock slams into the moon, the impact crater often stays for billions of years, almost frozen in time.
That's because, unlike Earth, our lunar satellite has no weather to wash away the collision, nor intense geologic activity to blanket the surface in new rock. NASA's new Orion spacecraft — which is currently orbiting the moon on a crucial, uncrewed mission to test the capsule's spaceflight abilities — recently captured detailed images of the moon's deeply cratered ground. The space agency released these pictures from the Artemis I mission on Nov. 23.
NASA snapped the black and white images with the Orion capsule's optical navigation camera, which engineers are testing for future moon flights. "Orion uses the optical navigation camera to capture imagery of the Earth and the Moon at different phases and distances, providing an enhanced body of data to certify its effectiveness under different lighting conditions as a way to help orient the spacecraft on future missions with crew," NASA wrote online.
Orion captured some of these images from around 80 miles above the surface. Below are a few of the new pictures of the moon, a barren desert teeming with craters and hills. Crucially, NASA suspects some of the satellite's craters contain bounties of water ice — a necessary resource for future deep space missions.
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The Orion capsule, which will one day carry up to six astronauts, has some major benchmarks just ahead. On Friday evening, NASA will fire the spacecraft's engines and send it into an orbit (called "distant retrograde orbit") that will fling it some 50,000 miles beyond the moon. There, it will orbit the moon for over six days. Then Orion will again fire its engines to leave the moon's gravity and travel back to Earth.
The uncrewed spacecraft is expected to splash down into the Pacific Ocean, off of San Diego, on Dec. 11. If the mission proves successful, astronauts may fly aboard Orion as early as 2024. And though the timeline is ambitious and will likely be pushed back, astronauts may again step foot on the lunar surface as soon as 2025.
This time, they'll be looking to establish a permanent presence on the resource-rich moon. NASA wants to stay.
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I want to see a picture of the flag !!!!!!
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Deleteyet, we can see near the edge of the universe.. but we can’t see things on our moon?
Deletethat doesn't sound clever, mate.
Deleteyou need to do a little homework on terrestrial based and space based optics. It's not just line of sight buddy. Go do a little Google homework before people really understand your level of intelligence
DeleteNo need to feel guilty, it’s not your bad that You Don’t understand…
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Deleteyeah, I didn't realize this was a mental health issue. Keep On Keepin On little buddy
DeleteYou want to see a photo made from orbit of a
Delete1.6 metre flag looking verticaly down on it ??? .... are you normal ???
and the original moon buggy.
DeleteI’ll help answer a little. The reason we can so far into the universe is the intricacies of the JWST, which is one of the finest pieces of technology, that and the distance that it was launched helps. An idea of just how delicate this technology is, JWST needs a temperature near absolute zero to properly function. Perhaps, you’re not too much in the loop, which happens to us all, but you can use google moon, and it’s basically a google maps version of what we have so far, you can even find some of the original 1969 landing equipment left over. Hope this helps
DeleteYou aren't.
DeleteLet's stop focusing on the moon?
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This is now occuring around the world and because of cognitive dissonance, selfishness, denial, ignorance, capitalism, greed, overpopulation, and the spread of misinformation PEOPLE ARE STILL NOT TAKING THE ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CRISIS SERIOUSLY OR PREPARING FOR THIS NIGHTMARE FUTURE WE HAVE CREATED!!
I own an international disaster relief company, I studied environmental science, climate change, disaster relief, fire technology, emergency medical response, horticulture and journalism for two decades. I have responded to 50-60 California wildfires since 2002 and made national news hundreds of times. I've also been through seven hurricanes and covered the aftermath of five others internationally. I work closely with climatologists, scientists, environmentalists, politicians, non-profits, first responders, the military and United Nations. I constantly see how people's inability to understand the urgency of the climate crisis [mainly in the US] is exacerbating the situation globally.
With all this information, I realize systemic environmental science education is our absolute best solution!
https://climate.nasa.gov/solutions/adaptation-mitigation/
you do realize that NASA work—including their work on going to the moon—plays a huge role in understanding our own climate, no?
Deleteheard the same thing in the 70’s😂😂
Deleteyou gonna shut this down? https://oceansconnectes.org/en/the-oceanic-carbon-pump/
Deletehow much taxes can I pay to save the world?!?! 😆😆🤣🤣🤣
Deletefortunately our scientists are capable of focusing on more than one thing at a time.
DeleteEarth has had 5 major Ice Ages that humans are aware of, all of which occurred before modern humans. Technically we are overdue for another ice age. We live on a dynamically changing world. All humans can do is try to adapt. Have we warmed the planet by burning fossil fuels? Yes. Should we stop using fossil fuels? Yes (they’ll eventually runout anyway). Will this stop the climate from changing? No, Earth’s climate has constantly evolved over time. It’s just in the small time modern humans have been around, the climate has been relatively consistent.
Deleteyea hope you also understand that it's a tool used to bring in the new world order by the elites and the enemy of humanity
DeleteI think the concern is that it is happening too quickly for us to adapt. We can’t reverse the change, but we could slow it down to give us more time to figure it out
DeleteThere's a volcano in one of the Scandinavian countries,pumps out more pollution in one day than ALL the cars in America do in a week.
Deletethere’s 8 billion people on the planet. What do you think is going to happen when we get to 10 billion?
DeleteOoooow so spooky yeah craters oh I won't sleep tonight knowing the moon has craters.
ReplyDeleteAre these the pics from the 60s ?
ReplyDeleteSo you're telling me this whole time the moon has just been like one giant pumice rock? 🤔
ReplyDeleteThis quality is from apollo10.5
ReplyDeleteThe chances of anything coming from the moon is a million to one they said.
ReplyDeletebut it isn't 0
Deleteearth is flat. 😅
ReplyDeleteAw yeah! Love it
ReplyDelete2022 and we only get pixelated black and white images that could’ve been taken in 1969 💆♂️
ReplyDeleteWe should be able to see more than just this with the technology we have. Seriously NASA, it is not even 4k. like 60's/70's. Shame on you!
ReplyDeleteI may be really stupid to be asking this question and have been debating whether or not to ask it, but why has it taken so long to go back to the moon???
ReplyDeleteHint 1 : cold war and space race between USA and USSR ...
DeleteHint 2 : collapse of USSR and end of space race ...
Hint 3 : war on terror , Iraq , Afghanistan, ect
Hint 4 : cost vs profit vis risk
Buzz Aldrin saw ETs and they were not happy with seeing humans
Deletenot great imaging for almost 2023
ReplyDeleteNot eerie at all.
ReplyDeleteThank God for an atmosphere!
ReplyDeleteJust wait till we actually land on it 🤣
ReplyDeleteAren’t they all eerie?
ReplyDeleteWhere are the aliens?
ReplyDeletedark side, and inside the hollow moon.
DeleteWhy are their images always cropped like that?
ReplyDeleteMakes a bit of a mockery of the moon landings. They were shot in a desert and the moon is clearly very mountainous.
ReplyDeleteWhy did all the Apollo missions look like they were shot on a largely flat area of sand?
Show us the 🇺🇸 flag
ReplyDeleteYou want to see a photo made from orbit of a
Delete1.6 metre flag looking verticaly down on it ??? .... are you normal ???
https://giphy.com/gifs/twilight-edward-cullen-new-moon-uxv6t1fIOojDy
ReplyDeleteLooks like Kansas at night.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if Kamala is impressed 😂 she’s never seen the moon with the naked eye before. 
ReplyDeleteLol nope
ReplyDeleteBLAH...BLAH! Still want solid proof on the original man on the moon! As Arizona was a staged background for the moon Too much B.S.
ReplyDeleteHOW can anyone believe about the moon!
Fake as hell
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