A new video shows Earth and the moon whirling through space, as seen by NASA's Jupiter-bound Juno spacecraft in October.
"If
Captain Kirk of the USS Enterprise said, 'Take us home, Scotty,' this
is what the crew would see," the Southwest Research Institute's Scott
Bolton, principal investigator for the $1.1 billion Juno mission, said
in a NASA news release. “In the movie, you ride aboard Juno as it
approaches Earth and then soars off into the blackness of space. No
previous view of our world has ever captured the heavenly waltz of Earth
and moon."
This clip even has an original score — by the composer Vangelis, no less.
Pale blue dot
Ever
since its launch in 2011, Juno has been making its way to a 2016
encounter with Jupiter. To get there, the bus-sized spacecraft took
advantage of a gravitational slingshot maneuver on Oct. 9 that came
within 350 miles (560 kilometers) of Earth's surface. The two-minute
video released on Tuesday shows the view from four cameras that are
mounted near the tip of one of Juno's solar arrays. The cameras are
designed to track faint stars and get the right orientation for Juno's
magnetic-field sensors. In October, they were pressed into duty to watch
Earth pass by.
The video starts when Juno is about 600,000 miles
(966,000 kilometers) from Earth. Because the spacecraft was spinning
around once every 30 seconds, the video frames were selected to provide a
smooth view of the moon and our own pale blue dot of a planet, looming
larger in the virtual windshield. The pictures may not be
high-resolution, but watching the video does give you an awe-inspiring —
and humbling — perspective on our place in the cosmos.
"Everything
we humans are and everything we do is represented in that view," said
the star tracker's designer, John Jørgensen of the Danish Technical
University.
Hearing a radio 'hello'
At the same time Juno was
watching us Earthlings, it was listening for us as well. Thousands of
amateur-radio operators were enlisted to say "Hi" to Juno in Morse code,
as part of a tryout for the spacecraft's electromagnetic-wave sensor.
Researchers
at the University of Iowa, where the Waves instrument was designed and
built, evaluated the data after the flyby. The review showed that
messages were received during an early stage of the encounter, when Juno
was still more than 23,000 miles (37,000) from Earth.
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