Timelapse shows Earth visible on Nasa's Orion lunar flyby

Nasa checked off another crucial milestone on its first crew-capable moon mission for 50 years early on Monday with the Orion capsule of Artemis 1 “buzzing” the moon as it made its closest approach to the lunar surface of the 25-day space flight.

The pass, 81 miles above the far side of the moon, was followed by a critical engine burn to place the spacecraft on a pathway to a wide lunar orbit 40,000 miles further on, the farthest a human-rated vehicle has ever traveled from Earth. Timelapse footage shows the capsule, moon and Earth in the same frame.

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[chancesire]

The whole human consciousness on that tiny blue ball. Crazy, all the humans in 1 visual.

[foxylady]

Whenever I see the earth like that I always wonder what I was doing when that picture was taken…😂😂

[CarlosAM]

I think this comment section perfectly encapsulates why we have not been to mars yet.

[terrytube]

Flat earthers: "The moon is bigger than Earth!!!"

[Budanevey]

_"The rebel base will be in firing range in seven minutes..."_

[My_Bread_Was_Burnt]

Absolute Beauty, reminds me of that photo of earth, taken on the moon's surface.

[WaterLemon]

Just gonna say from that angle the moon looks like its from a ps2 game

[imperatorvespasian]

Earth will be in range in 3 minutes Lord Vader

[mylopintorizvi]

As a person who does VFX and graphic design it's funny to me that when we see the moon in represented in these mediums it gets spiced up having fancy atmosphericesque FX and other FX but in reality it's just a giant lump of rock

[BustaCap]

So do they not record it going around and just send the footage once they reconnect? Nasa doesn’t seem to have it all together.

[Dreadfulbride]

Sometimes I feel so insecure looking at this. A mote from a mote from a mote and the universe is.... a mote? Probably. * I am so glad for our light bulb.

[ancaotslad]

How is the earth smaller than the moon in perspective ?? It dosnt look real

[factsoverfear]

Horrible cgi. I can see he moon more clear with my own eyes from earth 💡

[jamiehasted]

Watch this while listening to Detach by Hans Zimmer...

[NathanBrahmbhattpavan]

how come they did an animation for the view of the closest section to the moon after signal was gained back then only focussed on the view of earth?

[carlosrg]

I wonder why we don't just go to the moon (because we've been there before, haven't we?) and take some fantastic video footage on the surface itself. Why this orbit BS?

[birdsfan]

It's like the Apollo program all over again. Starting to think maybe we didn't go to the moon

[artursiejavs]

Who also saw that earth is flat, nk absolutely flat but around goes half circle, DOME,can see it clearly

[umelnyck]

These cartoons are ridiculous. How do people fall for this?

[madness]

My telescope gives a much clearer picture of the moon. Wonder why