🚀Espace : les astronautes d’Artemis II capturent un coucher de Terre 🌓

NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman shares raw, unedited video of Earth setting behind the Moon's limb, captured during the Artemis II mission. | Contesto: cronaca

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• 🚀Espace : les astronautes d’Artemis II capturent un coucher de Terre 🌓

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NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, commander of the upcoming Artemis II mission, has released a stunning video showing a full Earth setting behind the rugged horizon of the Moon. The footage, captured from the Orion spacecraft's window during its uncrewed Artemis I test flight in late 2022, presents a raw and unfiltered view of our planet disappearing into the blackness of space, a perspective only a handful of humans have ever witnessed directly. Wiseman emphasized the authenticity of the imagery, stating the view was "neither cropped nor cut." The video provides a powerful preview of the vistas awaiting the four-person Artemis II crew, which includes Wiseman, NASA pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen. Their mission, currently scheduled for no earlier than September 2025, will mark the first crewed voyage to lunar vicinity since Apollo 17 in 1972. Unlike the upcoming Artemis III mission planned for a landing, Artemis II will be a roughly 10-day flight to test Orion's systems with astronauts on board, looping around the far side of the Moon before returning to Earth. The "Earthset" phenomenon captured in the video is a direct reversal of the iconic "Earthrise" photograph taken by Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders in 1968. That image, showing a fragile blue marble rising over a desolate lunar landscape, is widely credited with galvanizing the global environmental movement. The new footage from Artemis offers a 21st-century counterpart, rendered not in a single, grainy photograph but in high-definition video, showcasing the dynamic motion of our home world slipping from view. Astronomers and space enthusiasts note the technical and symbolic significance of the "uncropped" view. The raw footage, free from digital enhancement or compositional framing, presents the scene exactly as it would appear to an astronaut gazing out the window. This authenticity bridges the gap between public perception and astronaut experience, making the profound isolation and beauty of deep space more tangible. It serves as a visceral reminder of the mission's purpose: to return humans to the lunar environment as a stepping stone...

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