Artemis Program · Ars Technica
The animated version of the iconic "Hello, world" image shares striking new details
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The astronauts flying aboard the Artemis II mission to the Moon last month took a lot of pictures, and a few dozen of the best ones were released during and shortly afterward the flight.
Key facts
- The animation is sped up by a factor of 30, with the sequenced images covering 1 minute and 20 seconds in real time
- But it wasn’t until last weekend that NASA released the whole trove of more than 12,000 images, dumping them onto the Gateway to Astronaut Photography
- The new image release from includes a sequence of ‘Hello World’ still photographs
- There are 17 separate photos in the sequence—there were more, but at different exposures and Earth started to drift off-shot in some—so this was the best consecutive sequence,” Saunders told Ars via
Summary
But it wasn’t until last weekend that NASA released the whole trove of more than 12,000 images, dumping them onto the Gateway to Astronaut Photography. One of the early highlights during the mission was the “Hello, world” image captured by Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman as the Orion spacecraft left Earth on its outbound journey toward the Moon. In the newly released archive, there are dozens more. The new image release from includes a sequence of ‘Hello World’ still photographs.