Posted on 08/09/2022 1:30:49 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: What it would look like to leave planet Earth? Such an event was recorded visually in great detail by the MESSENGER spacecraft as it swung back past the Earth in 2005 on its way in toward the planet Mercury. Earth can be seen rotating in this time-lapse video, as it recedes into the distance. The sunlit half of Earth is so bright that background stars are not visible. The robotic MESSENGER spacecraft is now in orbit around Mercury and has recently concluded the first complete map of the surface. On occasion, MESSENGER has continued to peer back at its home world. MESSENGER is one of the few things created on the Earth that will never return. At the end of its mission MESSENGER crashed into Mercury's surface.
Todays image is a video at the link.
Todays image is a video at the link.
I’ve got a ticket to the moon
I’ll be leaving here any day soon
Yeah, I’ve got a ticket to the moon
But I’d rather see the sunrise, in your eyes
Got a ticket to the moon
I’ll be rising high above the earth so soon
And the tears I cry might turn into the rain
That gently falls upon your window
You’ll never know
“...one of the few things created on the Earth that will never return...”
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Actually, there are quite a lot of things...
Yep, the moon and Mars are littered with them.
It’s just my job, five days a week
A rocket man, a rocket man
She’s a beauty!
Mission control to Major Tom.
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