South Korean Moon Mission Delivers Devastatingly Gorgeous Earth Views - CNET

Hello, Earth, you're looking beautiful. South Korea's Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter spacecraft, known arsenic Danuri, has sent humanity immoderate ocular emotion letters from the moon. The spacecraft precocious entered lunar orbit and turned a high-resolution camera toward home.

The Korea Aerospace Research Institute shared the views connected Twitter this week. The archetypal 2 travel from precocious December and amusement the cratered scenery of the satellite with Earth peeking supra the horizon.

The images are reminiscent of Earthrise views seen from NASA's Apollo and Artemis missions. The around-the-moon Artemis I ngo sent backmost a beauteous video of an Earthrise arsenic seen from the uncrewed Orion capsule past year.

KARI shared a 2nd acceptable of Earth images snapped during the caller year. 

2023년 새해에 다누리가 촬영한 지구와 달
다누리가 2022년 12월 31일과 2023년 1월 1일 계묘년 새해 첫날에 촬영한 지구-달 사진을 보내왔습니다.
다누리는 현재 탑재체들의 성능 확인 및 오차 조정 등 작업을 진행하고 있으며, 2월부터 본격적인 과학 기술 임무를 수행할 예정입니다.#다누리 pic.twitter.com/fBF1azldSj

— 한국항공우주연구원 (@kari2030) January 3, 2023

Danuri is South Korea's archetypal lunar mission. It launched successful August 2022 connected a SpaceX rocket and is scheduled to orbit the satellite for a year. NASA contributed 1 instrumentality to the mission, a camera called ShadowCam that volition seizure images of the moon's shadowy polar regions. The ngo could assistance NASA prime aboriginal satellite landing sites. 

The sanction Danuri came astir done a nationalist contention and it's the effect of melding the Korean words for satellite and enjoy. After seeing these images, the sanction couldn't beryllium much fitting.