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The Path of Artemis II (apod.nasa.gov)

submitted 2 months ago by Innerworld@lemmy.world to c/astronomy@mander.xyz

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[–] degenerate_neutron_matter@fedia.io 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A much simpler animation: Animation

[–] reptar@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That is fucking awesome.

Somehow I've not really paying that much attention, which is weird cause I've been on this reading marathon after not really reading since I was a kid, and it's all sci-fi. Lots of space.

That first orbit maneuver is so cool. Distances scaled correctly? I guess I just mean 1px in x and in y are equal? I'm often telling people the moon is quite far away. It would be even better with earth and moon diameter to scale.

[–] degenerate_neutron_matter@fedia.io 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Pretty sure the distances are to scale. It would be harder to see things if they also sized the Earth and Moon correctly, but there are some good images that show them fully to scale.

[–] reptar@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

Thanks for the link!