NASA has released a series of images capturing what it says was a Korean spacecraft flying over the surface of the moon at thousands of kilometers per hour.
The images, a series of black and white photos, showed what looked like a smeared line crossing over the moon’s surface.
The LRO managed to capture the moment at a variety of distances 5 miles below the LRO’s orbit, between 5 to 2½ miles.
The LRO’s orbit above the moon is around 31 miles, or 50 kilometers, according to NASA.
Its narrow-angle camera, known as LROC, caught the moment during three orbits where it was close enough to record the Danuri orbiter.
Byrne included a selection of the “unsmeared” images by NASA’s LRO team in an online thread.
The LRO was caught on film last spring by a Korean orbiter.
It snapped the NASA spacecraft flying above it at around 11 miles away on April 7, 2023.
A set of photos that NASA claims show a Korean spacecraft traveling thousands of kilometers per hour across the moon’s surface have been made public.
The last year has seen a rise in interest in cosmological flight among American politicians and the general public, with new committees and groups attempting to determine what the U. S. is aware of objects in flight that have been captured on film.
The space agency announced that it was able to record the moment when two spacecraft flew around the moon’s surface simultaneously, amidst the growing interest in Monday’s solar eclipse.
Photographs of the Korea Aerospace Research Institute’s Danuri lunar orbiter, which is orbiting the moon almost parallel to NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), were taken between March 5 and 6, during the 15-year mission.
A series of monochromatic pictures appeared to depict a smeared line that appeared to cross the lunar surface. The LRO was able to record the event at a range of five miles below its orbit, or between five and two and a half miles. NASA estimates that the LRO’s orbit above the moon is about 31 miles, or 50 km.
In order to explore the surface of Earth’s nearest neighbor and provide fundamental answers about its origin and evolution, as well as our planet’s, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center launched the LRO in 2009.
At the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, the LRO operations team took these pictures. Three orbits were captured by its LROC narrow-angle camera, which was close enough to record the Danuri orbiter. The Korean aircraft was captured in the image as a smeared blur, despite the short exposure.
According to the LROC team, the two craft’s relative velocity was an astounding 3 point 2 kilometers per second, meaning “exquisite” timing was needed to make sure the camera was pointed in the correct direction at the right moment.
Paul Byrne, an associate professor of earth, environmental, and planetary science at St. To be clear, the Danuri orbiter is not an oddly thin load of pixels; rather, it has a fairly typical appearance. Louis from Washington University stated as much. It’s smeared on the LRO’s camera detector, though, due to the incredible speeds involved. “.”.
In an internet discussion, Byrne posted some of the “unsmeared” photos taken by NASA’s LRO team.
A Korean orbiter captured the LRO on camera last spring. On April 7, 2023, at about 11 miles away, it broke apart the NASA spacecraft that was passing over it.
Using an equally hazy image as a starting point, the NASA-funded ShadowCam instrument on board the Danuri lunar probe captured the photo and produced a high-resolution simulation of the orbiter’s route.
