Artemis II: Deep Dive on the Moon Flyby, Earthset, and Reentry
EP 37
·21:48

When Earth and Moon looked the same size

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21:50so that was right after the translunar injection. They were maybe an hour or two into the whole thing. As you get farther and away from Earth you start seeing the moon which is there in the image and I don't know if you can see but there's a tiny crescent in the lower left where astronauts Glover and um Jeremy Hansen they're looking at this tiny crescent. That's the Earth. So the Earth is getting smaller and smaller in the window and the moon is getting a little bit bigger. And at this point I think the moon and the Earth were the same size even though the moon is about, you know, a sixth of the size of the Earth. It they're at this distance where now

22:30the moon and the Earth are the same size. >> That's so bizarre. >> it's just crazy, dude, that we're going so far. >> We're going so far. >> We're going so far compared to what we've been doing for the past 50 years. >> Oh my gosh, it's just I I I thought it was really, really cool. >> you love to see it. >> Right? >> And and I I think it's really important to kind of that we again on this pod because we talk about it from first principles, not just show the photos but explain the camera selection, why the camera selection looks different, how it impacts what we're viewing, I think it was really important that you made the note that this is what the eye sees versus this is what we get out of the

23:11camera because it basically has boosted stats as compared to our eyes. >> Yeah. Well, there's a there's a caveat there which I'm going to get to later which is our eye also has boosted stats compared to cameras. So, we'll we'll be getting to that a little bit later because >> I promise that was not planned everybody. >> So, before before we move on to getting

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