Posted on 12/08/2022 11:49:52 AM PST by MtnClimber
Explanation: A camera on board the uncrewed Orion spacecraft captured this view on December 5 as Orion approached its return powered flyby of the Moon. Below one of Orion's extended solar arrays lies dark, smooth, terrain along the western edge of the Oceanus Procellarum. Prominent on the lunar nearside Oceanus Procellarum, the Ocean of Storms, is the largest of the Moon's lava-flooded maria. The lunar terminator, shadow line between lunar night and day, runs along the left of the frame. The 41 kilometer diameter crater Marius is top center, with ray crater Kepler peeking in at the edge, just right of the solar array wing. Kepler's bright rays extend to the north and west, reaching the dark-floored Marius. Of course the Orion spacecraft is now headed toward a December 11 splashdown in planet Earth's water-flooded Pacific Ocean.
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That is a pretty cool picture!
Luna has taken a lot of direct hits, hasn’t she? ;)
Artimus, the woke program from NASA. First woman and first person of color to walk on the moon! LGBTQ+ friendly! Apollo part duex. And it really doesn’t have a mission except equity. On the other hand, what spaceEx is doing is innovative and fascinating. Anymore I’m completely unimpressed with what this government sh$ts.
Right in the middle is The Bowling Ball Craters.
great shot!... I had to look twice to see if it was indeed an APOD link!!
zoomed in, those craters are deep!! it’s not the typical bowl that starts at the rim. there are complete verticle sides to those holes before the dished bottom starts!!
” Earth’s water-flooded Pacific Ocean.”
The Pacific ocean is water flooded??
When did that happen?
When did that happen?
I don't know but it has been that way for quite some time. I remember going to the beach in California as a kid and the Pacific Ocean was full of water then.
I'll be long dead, but that's how I hope it will be.
Indeed.
We're bigger, we're at the bottom of a deeper gravity well, so...
They can take all the pretty pictures that they want.
Scientists? I’m STILL waiting for the flying car that was predicted back in 1960! ;)
As Orion's camera filled the screen with its three drogue parachutes overhead, the peppermint candy delivery was unmistakable.
"It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, everywhere you go."
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