The Earth is seen setting from the far side of the Moon just beyond the Orion spacecraft in this video taken on the sixth day of the Artemis I mission by a camera on the tip of one of Orion’s solar arrays. The spacecraft was preparing for the Outbound Powered Flyby maneuver which would bring it within 80 miles of the lunar surface, the closest approach of the uncrewed Artemis I mission, before moving into a distant retrograde orbit around the Moon. The spacecraft entered the lunar sphere of influence on Sunday, November 20, making the Moon, instead of Earth, the main gravitational force acting on the spacecraft. Credit: NASA
On the sixth day of the Artemis I mission, Orion made a close flyby of the Moon, passing about 81 miles (130 km) above the surface. During the close flyby, Orion’s optical navigation camera captured black-and-white images of craters on the Moon below. Orion uses the optical navigation camera to capture imagery of the Earth and the Moon at different phases and distances, providing an enhanced body of data to certify its effectiveness under different lighting conditions as a way to help orient the spacecraft on future missions with crew.
The Earth and Moon are tidally locked, which means that the Moon spins on its axis exactly once each time it orbits our planet. Because of this, people on Earth only ever see one side of the Moon. In fact, humans didn’t see the lunar far side until a Soviet spacecraft flew past in 1959. This side we never see is known as the “far side of the Moon.” Sometimes it is called the “dark side of the Moon,” which some people consider a misnomer because it gets just as much sunlight as the near side of the Moon. However, “dark” in this case is referring to unknown, rather than a lack of light.
Here are the detailed images of the Moon captured by Orion’s optical navigation camera:
NASA’s live coverage of the Artemis I Close Flyby of the Moon.
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I see that the NRO is still downgrading photos from the moon. This time its a slight double image. It's hard to pin down but definitely interfering with clear viewing of the images. Of course the over exposure too. Always with the over exposure. Not too original but keeps us in the dark.
These images are taken by relatively low resolution navigation cameras out on the tips of the solar panels. I doubt the National Reconaissance Office ever laid eyes on them , let alone " degraded" them for public consumption. Why would they ?
They have already acknowledged the low resolution pictures and have stated that 70% of the images are being stored instead of sent to earth because of enormous amounts of data that has to be sent along with the images. Once Artemis has landed back home they will have hundreds of GB of high res images.
One photo of the dark side shows what appears to be two airplanes sitting in a crater.
Any explanation from your side
Dark side? If it's "dark" why can we see such detail on the surface?
Did you read the article at all?
The Illuminatu? LOL.
The appearance of two airplanes is merely an illusion intended to throw you off: it's actually Uatu's so-called Blue Area.
Sorry, Uatu. Maybe something other than airplanes the next time?
I thought that was Xenu, hiding out with the Thetans. Ref: Dianetics, pg. 231
Probably planes that disappeared from the Bermuda triangle(?).
Since it can take such good pictures I would love to see pictures of everything we have left up there before.
Don't need Orion for that; here are some photos of Apollo landing sites from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO):
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/news/apollo-sites.html
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/lroimages/apollosites.html
https://www.space.com/14874-apollo-11-landing-site-moon-photo.html
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/revisited/index.html
(That's not *everything*, of course.)
The U.S. didn't land on the dark side previously. So the flag, prints, etc. Would not be visible here. Also, the moon is not, like the size of a boulder, you understand that..
I agree the pics are distorted to hide “things”. Some see the oddities in the photos, and some don't. That’s the standard technique to keep disclosure coming, and allow skepticism at the same time. Brilliant if you think about it. Cheers!
William Adama, the "dark" side of the Moon is only dark from Earth because the Moon is tidally locked with Earth. The Moon gets equal amounts of light on all its sides during its 27.3 Earth-day orbit around us.
You're welcome
Dude, there is only a FAR SIDE of the moon in a tidally locked rotation. The far side has phases just like the side we see (the near side).
Aha! One big ball of mozzarella just like I suspected!
You people and your idiotic conspiracy theories, did you miss the part where they said those are from a fly by done 81 miles above the surface of the moon ? And how fast do think Orion is moving up there ? Maybe a few hundred miles an hour ? Why wouldn't be some " oddities " in the pics. And why hasn't anyone been to the moon since the 70s ? Because there is nothing there . And why would they hide nothing ? You people sound stupid.
They are deep into self delusion. Can't reason with them.
They why did they block out certain areas of some of the LRO photos? There's other photos that have "stuff" in them.
Let us comment in your page NSASA. You guys should be banned on YouTube 💯
OMG. See also: I saw Elvis sitting in a crater next to Aria 51.
Should have invested in a better camera than salaries and benefits
Have you already sent an High rez picture using radio signal?
Do you know how Much Time This could take just for one on high rez??
Its a basic notion in communication transfer to take largely in consideration for being able to send any data.