According to NASA ’s Juno chief investigator Scott Bolton“if Captain Kirk of the USS Enterprise said , ‘ Take us home , Scotty , ’ this is what the crew would see . ” It ’s truly an unbelievable succession — the first meter ever that the Moon has been get orbiting Earth .
Bolton describes the video recording : “ In the flick , you tantalize aboard Juno as it approach Earth and then hang glide off into the blackness of space . No previous view of our world has ever capture the heavenly walk-in of Earth and moon . ”
The sequence was capture when Juno flew past Earth on October 9 , 2013 . In that pass , the ship speed up to more than 8,800 miles per hour ( 7.3 kilometre per second ) , which put in en route to meet Jupiter on July 4 , 2016 . The scientist tested one of Juno ’s cameras , “ optimized to track swooning stars ” by catch this incredible eyeshot of the Earth and the Moon on their ageless dance .
As the designer of the star tracker — John Jørgensen of the Danish Technical University — put it : “ Everything we humanity are and everything we do is typify in that view . ”
Indeed . It may make you feel undistinguished , but you should feel incredibly lucky to have materialized in this cute tiny planet of ours .
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