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It's a bit tricky to navigate between all the amazing photos NASA Artemis crew captured so I vibe coded (Codex) a simple site with full screen full res view and arrow navigation: https://nasa.puma.tech feedback welcome
It's a bit tricky to navigate between all the amazing photos NASA Artemis crew captured so I vibe coded (Codex) a simple site with full screen full res view and arrow navigation: https://nasa.puma.tech feedback welcome
I listened to pretty much the entire fly by yesterday, and I was imagining how I would have spent my time at the windows with a camera. Listening to the comms made me think of that episode from From The Earth to the Moon where they take the astronauts out and give them geology lessons so they could be more productive with their descriptions. I was also very curious of their descriptions during the eclipse where the E…
It was amazing listening to it in real time. If I had any doubt about crewed missions, this Artemis moon flyby is extinguishing them. Hearing the crew discussing observations with Mission Control, moving cameras around, describing what they see, reacting to events and to curiosity and changing what they’re doing accordingly. And obviously just SO EXCITED to be doing it all. It was just amazing. They’re still live str…
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Hah! Funny how everyone here seems to be thinking the same: They said something about "finally 4k moon rocket images" and the stuff we got in the news was like blurry 800x600 type with lots of JPEG artifacts and such. Even the smallest resolution images I see in the link that the parent edited into their comment have better quality than what news outlets posted. I want TIFFs that takes ages to download and I need to…
They will be posted when they get them. Right now, NASA doesn't have them because they're still on the SD cards in the capsule (probably been copied to their PCDs too). There's not a lot of bandwidth to be pushing large RAW files. They have to share the bandwidth with all of the telemetry and comms. They sent some small files down just to make some PR announcements and tease what will be coming.
Maybe it's not operating as described yet?
I think my favorite of all these images is https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/amf-art002e009287/ . The sheer size difference, while simply a trick of perspective, makes Earth feel tiny and insignificant.
Some of my favs: 1. The moon eclipsed, with the Orion capsule (outside POV, from GoPro) - https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009567/art002e00... 2. The moon eclipsed, with the Orion capsule, and Earth crescent (outside POV, from GoPro) - https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009567/art002e00... 3. Crescent Moon, Crescent Earth (my fav!!) "A New View of the Moon" - https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/a…
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The moon is tidally locked to earth, we only ever see one side.
To add: this happens because the parts of the Moon that are closer to the Earth are pulled in more by Earth's gravity, compared to the ones further away.
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SpaceX is an amazing success story, both as a commercial story, and as a story of government-industry cooperation. NASA should be proud and commended for fostering SpaceX. The question is why does SpaceX stand alone? Why did ULA stagnate? Why can't NG make SRBs that don't have nozzles that fall off? Why can't Betchel build a launch tower on time? What is it about government contracts in these other areas that led to…
>>> SpaceX is an amazing success story 100%, and something that is underappreciated and often taken for granted nowadays, especially on our little forum here. >>> It would benefit even better by having many SpaceXs around. That made me chuckle, sounded to me a bit like "our house would benefit from having a few cats around". Perhaps the reason why there aren't too many SpaceX-like companies around is that it's truly…
If we don't have it, either we're subject to monopoly, or just a State owned company, at which point, why not just cut out the middlemen and go full Nationalized?
Can someone ELI5 how it is one side of the moon is never seen on Earth? The moon orbits and also rotates, does it not?
The gravitational pull of the moon lifts up the ocean to cause tides. Well the Earth's gravitational pull is so strong on the moon that the heavier side of the moon always faces the Earth. This is called tidal locking. So the only way to ever see the far side of the moon is to go there. Humans have gone there before, but almost always during an Earth "full moon", which means the far side is unlit. We do have full ima…
Are the bright spots to the lower right in this photo galaxies or just camera artifacts[0]? Unreal photo either way. [0] https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009301/art002e00...
They said they were able to see a few planets during the eclipse. I know they definitely saw Mars as they were discussing the red color. They saw Venus which was visible in the live feed from the GoPro on the solar panel. IIRC, they were thinking Saturn would have been visible. My guess is the really bright dots are planets. It looks like some horrendous compression artifacts along with some possible lens distortion.…
It's taken with an AF Nikkor 35mm f/2D on a NIKON Z 9.
What is the licence on these images? I can't seen anything on the site or in the HTML. I've been waiting for a new Earth Rise/Set shot (which is thankfully at least 5568x3712px from a NIKON D5). Edit: https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/ > You may use this material for educational or informational purposes, including photo collections, textbooks, public exhibits, computer graphical simulations and…
