Posted on 11/17/2022 6:10:17 PM PST by MtnClimber
Explanation: A Space Launch System rocket left planet Earth on Wednesday, November 16 at 1:47am EST carrying the Orion spacecraft on the Artemis 1 mission, the first integrated test of NASA’s deep space exploration systems. Over an hour after liftoff from Kennedy Space Center's historic Launch Complex 39B, one of Orion's external video cameras captured this view of its new perspective from space. In the foreground are Orion's Orbital Maneuvering System engine and auxillary engines, at the bottom of the European Service Module. Beyond one of the module's 7-meter long extended solar array wings lies the spacecraft's beautiful home world. The Artemis 1 mission will last almost four weeks, testing capabilities to enable human exploration of the Moon and Mars. The uncrewed Orion spacecraft is expected to fly by the Moon on November 21, performing a close approach to the lunar surface on its way to a retrograde orbit 70,000 kilometers beyond the Moon.
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Very cool.
bttt
Puts things in perspective...
That looks pretty far from Earth. Who took the picture?
Oh...”external video camera”
Wonder if that Earth place is inhabited. No intelligent life there, that’s at least for sure.
Studio images have really come a long way.
Well over half way there already.
Someone is even now pulling up his keyboard … “See! I told you it is flat!”
Earth doesn’t know it, but it us the star jewel of an intergalactic 24/7 comedy and entertainment syndicate. Earth never repeats a hit show, though many of them often rhyme. Extraterrestrials cannot get enough of the shenannigans and wacky hijinx on Clown World. And the audience’s biggest expense is popcorn. (Oh, yes. A treat long since sampled from their world to be raised as a delicacy on other worlds across the galaxy.)
Rats! You beat me to it. It’s plainly flat and now we have photographic proof. In yer’ face, you flat earth deniers.
One day that will be a photo of our spacecraft showing an alien planet with intelligent life.
Mars is on fire this morning before sunrise.
Earth is pretty much alien now........................
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