NASA shares the first image of Earth after liftoff of the Artemis 1 mission

After the successful takeoff of NASA’s Artemis 1 mission (despite several attempts), we can now enjoy the first images and video that give us incredible views of our planet.

After months of delays, the Artemis 1 mission of the US space agency, NASA, was successfully launched this Wednesday from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA broadcast the live event through his different social networks and published short clips on Twitter.

“Now we are going back to the Moon, not just to go to the Moon, but to learn how to live on the Moon in order to prepare to send humans to Mars.” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said at a news conference after the launch.

After this episode, the POT shared some images on Twitter. One of them is the one we show you on the cover. At that moment, the capsule was more than 92,000 kilometers from Earthapproximately one fifth of the distance to the Moonand was traveling at almost 8,800 km/h.

On the other hand and via Twitter, NASA published a video showing the spectacular image of Earth captured by the Orion spacecraft attached to the top of the rocket during its journey to the orbit of the Moon. The 24-second clip shows Earth receding behind the rocket that it moves at about 58,530 km/h to propel the Orion spacecraft on the way to the Moon. Quite a show.

Ace @NASA_Orion begins the #Artemis I mission to the Moon, the spacecraft captured these stunning views of our home planet. pic.twitter.com/Pzk3PDt7sd

— NASA Artemis (@NASAArtemis) November 16, 2022

“Views of our blue marble in the blackness of space now capture the imagination of a new generation: the Artemis generation”explains NASA spokeswoman Sandra Jones

In addition to the image, NASA also published a view from inside the capsule, showing the astronaut, Commander Moonikin Campos, who is trying on the orange suit that the astronauts will take aboard the rocket on its next flight.

The plan for the current mission is for Orion spend the next five days walking to the moon. The capsule will make its closest approach to our satellite on Monday (November 21), and then spend several days settling into lunar orbit before returning. The 25-day mission will conclude on December 11.

Orion will orbit the Moon, in a test for subsequent flights that should see the first woman astronaut and the first person of color to touch the lunar soil. The last time the United States sent astronauts to the Moon was during the Apollo era, between 1969 and 1972.

Surely they are not the only images we see of the mission Artemis 1as two other cameras are inside the spacecraftaccording to a NASA statement: one looks out the front window of the capsule and the other looks out the window of the upper hatch.