Earth and Moon Seen by Passing Juno Spacecraft with Music by Vangelis

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When NASA's Juno spacecraft flew past Earth on Oct. 9, 2013, it received a boost in speed of more than 8,800 mph (about 7.3 kilometer per second), which set it on course for a July 4, 2016, rendezvous with Jupiter.

One of Juno's sensors, a special kind of camera optimized to track faint stars, also had a unique view of the Earth-moon system. The result was an intriguing, low-resolution glimpse of what our world would look like to a visitor from afar.

The cameras that took the images for the movie are located near the pointed tip of one of the spacecraft's three solar-array arms. They are part of Juno's Magnetic Field Investigation (MAG) and are normally used to determine the orientation of the magnetic sensors. These cameras look away from the sunlit side of the solar array, so as the spacecraft approached, the system's four cameras pointed toward Earth. Earth and the moon came into view when Juno was about 600,000 miles (966,000 kilometers) away -- about three times the Earth-moon separation.

During the flyby, timing was everything. Juno was traveling about twice as fast as a typical satellite, and the spacecraft itself was spinning at 2 rpm. To assemble a movie that wouldn't make viewers dizzy, the star tracker had to capture a frame each time the camera was facing Earth at exactly the right instant. The frames were sent to Earth, where they were processed into video format.

The music accompaniment is an original score by Vangelis.

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makes me wonder where i was, what i was doing on Earth, seeing it spin like that in real time i picture myself in my daily affairs, and that Juno not only captured that moment in time for me, but for everyone else on Earth

tomp
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I can see my planet from there!

Great job, NASA.

Lerkero
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Amazing. Absolutely amazing. Earth is a treasure.

Ruto_K
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This is one reason we should treasure space exploration even more than we already do.

candiduscorvus
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It's pointless trying to explain to some people how amazing this is. they're stuck on stupid and just want to make noise so why bother.. I am stoked and can't wait for it's rendezvous with Jupiter. I just watched a video that detailed all of the various instruments on this probe. Science is a beautiful thing.

SilentShadowz
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OMG, this is amazing! It's always been my dream that a spacecraft would have a camera to film its view in space as it flew...and now these nostalgic images of the earth and moon moving in space!

galaxia
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amazing music! haven't heard new music by vangelis in such a long time

MisterSnowman
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For God's sake people, read the description. This video was taken with an instrument designed to track faint stars, not take ultra HD 1080p videos.

edwinhubble
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Mom, a video with me has over 1 million views on Youtube!

arzus
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one of the most amazing things i have ever seen, jaw dropping and somehow very alien.

condorscondor
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Incredible view of the earth and moon. Thanks

ColinEllis
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I do not know what we are going to do without Vangelis. He was already old when I was a kid. And he still making music. God bless him.

vjrei
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When you think of how big a building is, and how it's only a fraction of the earth, which is only a fraction of the sun, which is just a marble in our galaxy, and how our galaxy is just a spec of dust in the overall universe, it gets you wondering

jjtechno
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This makes me feel so humbled and alone. The moon is our closest family.

CLBOO
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Oh you guys, with the music and everything, I love this so much ! :)

LuckyLuigi
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It makes you wanna sing What a wonderful world out loud! 

IncertusVeritas
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Bubbye juno, with all my heart, rest in peace, its make me cry even i know its just a piece of metal!!!

Fallen_Angel
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It makes you think how small our world really is and us, as human beings, are smaller than micrometers in the universe. Mind blowing.

wilson
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We are infinitely microscopic beings on this scale, yet we somehow view ourselves as self-important and constantly worry about our "needs." Good to put things in perspective.

stephen
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Fitting soundtrack. Vangelis also happened to write the theme song for Carl Sagan's "Cosmos".

lavandrix