Space Exploration II: Always Looking up

[Kepler]

The moon is looming so large outside the capsule now.

 

[Jimjamesak]

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[Kepler]

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[Kepler]

Jinx!

 

[Jimjamesak]

So, it’s on the map display but are they flying over Mare Tranquillitatis? Can they take photos of Apollo 11’s landing site?

 

[Jimjamesak]

iPhone photo of the Moon’s surface.

 

[aparch]

So, it’s on the map display but are they flying over Mare Tranquillitatis? Can they take photos of Apollo 11’s landing site?

I don't think they're low enough from the surface to make out any features at the landing site.

India's Chandrayaan 2 snapped photos of the Apollo 11 and 12 landing sites while orbiting at 62 miles above the surface. Artemis 2 will be closest at 4,000 feet.

 

[Kepler]

Victor Glover making great observations about color and topography now that the moon is so close.

 

[Kepler]

I don't think they're low enough from the surface to make out any features at the landing site.

India's Chandrayaan 2 snapped photos of the Apollo 11 and 12 landing sites while orbiting at 62 miles above the surface. Artemis 2 will be closest at 4,000 feet.

Here is the lander:

 

[Jimjamesak]

Someone has already created Wikipedia pages for the two craters, Integrity and Carroll, that the crew requested to be named.

 

[Kepler]

Glover's imagery is beautiful. They finally sent a poet.

 

[aparch]

They talked earlier about the Moon and Earth being both visible in window three. Shot from outside the capsule captured it as well, just before loss of signal.

 

[jericho]

That green screen technology sure has advanced since 1969

 

[aparch]

What's truly amazing is that photo captures every living human in one photo at that moment. Four in the capsule on the left, 8.3 billion on the right.

 

[ticapnews]

169K are watching the live feed of the Artemis II mission on youtube.

Almost as many as watched that pregnant giraffe in 2017.

 

[Kepler]

Eclipse in 6 minutes.

 

[Kepler]

That green screen technology sure has advanced since 1969

"When people tell me Kubrick faked the moon landing I agree. I tell them Kubrick was such a stickler for accuracy he shot on location."

 

[Kepler]

Watching the approach of the eclipse on the simulation has serious 2001 vibes.

 

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

I can't say that I am proud of our entire species. Rather, proud of individual members of the species who have evolved enough to demo these advancements to the rest of us schlubs for our amusement and wonder.

i still can't believe we let a female and a black go up there.

 

[Kepler]

Just so long as they never let the black man alone with the white woman.