Korea’s first lunar mission offers devastating views of Earth

Hello, Earth, you are beautiful. South Korea’s Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter spacecraft, known as the Danuri, has sent humanity visual love letters from the moon. The spacecraft recently entered lunar orbit and turned a high resolution camera towards the house.

the The Korea Aerospace Research Institute shared the views on Twitter this week. The first two are from late December and show the moon’s crater landscape with Earth peeking out above the horizon.

#달 상공에서 #다누리 가보낸인증샷
이 사진 은 다누리 에 탑재 된 카메라 카메라 카메라 를 를 이용 해 촬영 하였으며 하였으며 하였으며 달 크레이터들 지구 의 모습 선명 하게 확인 할 수 수 있습니다.

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1) 12 월 24 일 달 상공 344 km 에서 촬영한 사진
2) 12 월 28 일 달 상공 124 km 에서 촬영한 사진 pic.twitter.com/pBC5Dw5X9M

— 한국항공우주연구원 (@kari2030) January 3, 2023

The pictures remind Earthrise views seen from NASA’s Apollo and Artemis missions. The mission around the moon Artemis I returned a beautiful video of an earth rise seen from the unscrewed Orion capsule last year.

KARI shared a second set of images of Earth broke in the new year.

2023년 새해에 다누리가 촬영한 지구와 달
From 2022 to September 12 to September 31, 2023 to September 1, 2023.
다누리 는 현재 탑재체들 의 성능 확인 및 오차 조정 등 작업 을 하고 있으며 있으며, 2 월 부터 본격 인 과학 기술 임무 를 수행 예정 예정 예정 입니다.#다누리 pic.twitter.com/fBF1azldSj

— 한국항공우주연구원 (@kari2030) January 3, 2023

Danuri is South Korea’s first lunar mission. It launched in August 2022 on a SpaceX rocket and is expected to orbit the Moon for a year. NASA provided an instrument for the mission, a camera called ShadowCam that will capture images of the moon’s dark polar regions. The mission could help NASA select future landing sites.

The name Danuri was born out of a public contest and it is the result of merging the Korean words for moon and pleasure. After seeing these images, the name couldn’t be more apt.