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The Path of Artemis II (apod.nasa.gov)
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[-] President@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago

This has way too many special effects for my tastes. People are going to the Moon, it doesn't need hyping up.

[-] degenerate_neutron_matter@fedia.io 14 points 1 month ago
[-] reptar@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

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.

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 2 points 1 month ago

Thanks for the link!

[-] Zuriz@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Which season of The Expanse is this intro from?

[-] 200ok@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

What's all the stuff that looks like rain?

[-] kichae@wanderingadventure.party 4 points 1 month ago
[-] 200ok@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I searched for graphics ("images") depicting solar wind and that's totally it. Thank you!

[-] TachyonTele@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago

I'm guessing it's radiation. It's bouncing off of the planets atmosphere.

[-] Chais@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Magnetosphere mostly. Only the part that's funneled along the field lines towards the poles makes it to the atmosphere, where it might be visible as aurora.

[-] prex@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago

Magnetosphere?
I'm no magnetologist.

[-] TachyonTele@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

I think so? I'm not 100% so i just said atmosphere as a catch all

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