Timelapse of Juice’s lunar-Earth flyby
On 19–20 August 2024, Juice successfully completed a world-first lunar-Earth flyby, with flight controllers guiding the spacecraft first past the Moon, then past Earth. The gravity of the two changed Juice’s speed and direction, sending it on a shortcut to Jupiter via Venus.
The closest approach to the Moon was at 23:15 CEST on 19 August, deflecting Juice towards a closest approach to Earth just over 24 hours later at 23:56 CEST on 20 August. In the hours before and after both close approaches, Juice’s two monitoring cameras captured photos, giving us a unique ‘Juice eye view’ of our home planet.
Juice’s two monitoring cameras provide 1024 x 1024 pixel snapshots that can be processed in colour. Their main purpose is to monitor the spacecraft’s various booms and antennas, especially during the challenging period after launch. The photos they captured of the Moon and Earth during the lunar-Earth flyby are a bonus.
The piece of music that accompanies the images is called 11,2 km/s. It was composed by Gautier Acher back in 2015, and selected as the official theme music for ESA’s Estrack ground station network to mark its 40th anniversary (more information). The music is available under a CC BY-NC-SA licence.
Juice rerouted to Venus in world’s first lunar-Earth flyby: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Juice/Juice_rerouted_to_Venus_in_world_s_first_lunar-Earth_flyby
Juice’s lunar-Earth flyby: all you need to know: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Juice/Juice_s_lunar-Earth_flyby_all_you_need_to_know
Processing notes: The Juice monitoring cameras provide 1024 x 1024 pixel images. Upscaling software was used to convert the images into 2160 x 2160 pixel images, which match the 3480 x2160 pixel resolution of the 4K movie format.
Credits: ESA – European Space Agency
Acknowledgements: Simeon Schmauß & Mark McCaughrean
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Imagine coming from Europa and seeing Earth for the first time 😍🌍 great work esa 👌
That's here, that's home, that's us 💖
Go Juice Go!!!
Brilliant. Thank you for sharing.
We all live there. We should all be kinder to Earth and everyone we meet there. ❤️💚
Being in context makes this video breathtaking.
I strongly suggest adding the context to it though for purpose of wholesome picture for random passing-by viewers to appreciate it as much as nerds like myself.
This is absolutely amazing! Godspeed Juice
In my opinion every top 1000 welthiest man and family in this world should contribute a considerable amount of share from their revenue yearly to their own countries space research organisation's programmes to grow the environment technologically that we all are living together.
We too need the free energy harvesting technology from our star for the whole planet's energy requirements, we also need cheap sea and road free transportation facilitating infrastructure which is affordable to the financially flimsy too, we have to be able to access our moon without technological inhibition, we need space crafts which could hover lightyears to and fro with in our galactic space atleast.
I believe a greed free demography can make these global wish possible in near future. Be united always.
Absolutely amazing stuff. thank you!
Amazing!
เรียน เจ้าของคลิป
ข้าพเจ้าเปิดดูคลิป ของคุณ มีการเชื่อมต่อต่อมไร้ท่อ หรือมีการควบคุมสัญญาณ หรือถอดถอนการเชื่อมต่อสัญญาณ หรือถอดถอนบางโปรแกรม ที่บริเวณขมับซ้ายสัญญาณวิ่งไปที่ท้ายทอยซ้าย ทำให้ปวดร้าวชั่วขณะ
WOULD LIKE TO FLY BYE MYSELF …
VERY COOL
There is something metaphysical about seeing earth, same with people,
like you're not just looking at matter.
The calculations required is staggering.
You got the Juice now