The Danuri spacecraft arrived in lunar orbit in Dec. 2022, and its first image dump is out of this world.
After orbiting the moon for just over a month, the Korean Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter is now sending back breathtaking images of Earth's rocky neighbor — and our planet too.
The KPLO — also named Danuri, a combination of the Korean words"dal," meaning moon, and"nuri," meaning enjoy, according to NASA — is South Korea's first exploratory space mission to leave Earth orbit, and is a joint project co-managed by KARI and NASA. The orbiter launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Aug. 4, 2022.
Danuri will orbit the moon for 11 months, so we can expect to see plenty more breathtaking images from the orbiter this year. In the meantime, enjoy these debut shots of Earth and its cosmic companion.
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