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This is the best animation of the trajectory I've seen: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260406.html https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260406.html
by irickt 7mo ago
This is the best animation of the trajectory I've seen: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260406.html https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260406.html
- pkaye 7mo agoSomeone did a nice animation on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNQ7MoL7erI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNQ7MoL7erI
- sandos 7mo agoI really liked this video! Orbits are hard to visualize but I think the choices here were very good.
- geokon 7mo agoIt's interesting that the flights are not timed for when the moon is in the magnetosphere shadow. As far as I could gather it seems they're intentionally exposing astronauts to more radiation to test equipment (maybe with an eye to future Mars missions?). Hard to get hard details from all the press release fluffy https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/news/noaas-space-weather-mission-protecting-artemis-ii-astronauts-and-society https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/news/noaas-space-weather-mission...