Mival93 t1_ixss6sl wrote
Reply to comment by kldload in Orion snaps 'selfie' with the Moon as it prepares for distant retrograde orbit | Insertion burn scheduled to take place today then engineers have six days to see how spacecraft fares in deep space by chrisdh79
Here is a really great video of the spacecraft in lunar orbit
https://twitter.com/lmspace/status/1596114847200120840?s=46&t=NaIoW-VH9LOkG4aW8JbUZQ
MadotsukiInTheNexus t1_ixumzcm wrote
There's something about photos (and especially video) where you can see part of the spacecraft that feels almost surreal to me.
I think it has something to do with the sense of scale and perspective. Images that just show a celestial body are photos of an object. Add something so clearly made by human beings, though, and whatever I'd being shown becomes a place instead (especially with a video like this, where you can see motion in roughly the way a human would from the same vantage). You get a sense for how large things are, and for their distance from the camera. It all feels so much larger and more dynamic, reminding us of where we are in the Universe.
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