Deep Impact views Earth and Moon from 31 Million Miles

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COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft has created a video of the moon transiting (passing in front of) Earth as seen from the spacecraft's point of view 31 million miles away. Scientists are using the video to develop techniques to study alien worlds.

"Making a video of Earth from so far away helps the search for other life-bearing planets in the Universe by giving insights into how a distant, Earth-like alien world would appear to us," said University of Maryland astronomer Michael A?Hearn, principal investigator for the Deep Impact extended mission, called EPOXI.

Deep Impact made history when the mission team directed an impactor from the spacecraft into comet Tempel 1 on July 4, 2005. NASA recently extended the mission, redirecting the spacecraft for a flyby of comet Hartley 2 on Nov. 4, 2010.

EPOXI is a combination of the names for the two extended mission components: a search for alien (extrasolar) planets during the cruise to Hartley 2, called Extrasolar Planet Observations and Characterization (EPOCh), and the flyby of comet Hartley 2, called the Deep Impact eXtended Investigation (DIXI).

Still of EPOXI video showing Earth and the Moon.The two videos show Earth observed at different light wavelengths, which is why differences in details are visible. The first version uses a red-green-blue filter; the second, an infrared-green-blue.

During a full Earth rotation, images obtained by Deep Impact at a 15-minute cadence have been combined to make a color video. During the video, the moon enters the frame (because of its orbital motion) and transits Earth, then leaves the frame. Other spacecraft have imaged Earth and the moon from space, but Deep Impact is the first to show a transit of Earth with enough detail to see large craters on the moon and oceans and continents on Earth.

"To image Earth in a similar fashion, an alien civilization would need technology far beyond what Earthlings can even dream of building," said Sara Seager, a planetary theorist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., and a co-investigator on EPOXI. "Nevertheless, planet-characterizing space telescopes under study by NASA would be able to observe an Earth twin as a single point of light -- a point whose total brightness changes with time as different land masses and oceans rotate in and out of view. The video will help us connect a varying point of planetary light with underlying oceans, continents, and clouds -- and finding oceans on extrasolar planets means identifying potentially habitable worlds." said Seager.

"Our video shows some specific features that are important for observations of Earth-like planets orbiting other stars," said Drake Deming of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Deming is deputy principal investigator for EPOXI, and leads the EPOCh observations. "A 'sun glint' can be seen in the movie, caused by light reflected from Earth's oceans, and similar glints to be observed from extrasolar planets could indicate alien oceans. Also, we used infrared light instead of the normal red light to make the color composite images, and that makes the land masses much more visible." That happens because plants reflect more strongly in the near-infrared, Deming explained. Hence the video illustrates the potential for detecting vegetated land masses on extrasolar planets by looking for variations in the intensity of their near-infrared light as the planet rotates.

The University of Maryland is the Principal Investigator institution, leading the overall EPOXI mission, including the flyby of comet Hartley 2. NASA Goddard leads the extrasolar planet observations. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., manages EPOXI for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. The spacecraft was built for NASA by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colo.

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[Homerboy]

meh

I prefer the CGI versions.

 

[dainthomas]

pretty sweet. NASA should do more stuff like this instead of growing mold in zero g or whatever.

 

[effowe]

Originally posted by: dainthomas
pretty sweet. NASA should do more stuff like this instead of growing mold in zero g or whatever.

They both have their places, there are many things to research and learn about space. This is just extra awesome because we'll eventually be doing this to find other habitable planets. Just imagine seeing a similar video but taken of a planet thousands of light years away, mind blowing.

 

[randay]

wow! so they actually found a planet capable of supporting life! I wonder if they are a bunch of assholes though?

 

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[randay]

Originally posted by: Citrix...

wat

 

[effowe]

Hey Citrix, your reply fucked up the display of this thread, could you edit that out please. I know that's what happens when you click the direct link, but the NASA site didn't properly set their MIME type on the .wmv files, so you get that jibberish. Right-click / save as FTW.

 

[Schfifty Five]

Originally posted by: Citrix

Ass. WTF is that shit!?

 

[SAWYER]

Why can we see planets millions of miles away even different galaxies, but they can't show us up close and detailed pics of the moon?

 

[effowe]

Originally posted by: Sawyer
Why can we see planets millions of miles away even different galaxies, but they can't show us up close and detailed pics of the moon?

Well there's definitely hi res pictures of the moon, but if you want a good overview start here..

http://www.google.com/moon/

 

[SAWYER]

I mean a pic so detailed I can see Nasa's old equipment

 

[effowe]

Originally posted by: Sawyer
I mean a pic so detailed I can see Nasa's old equipment

OK, after some googling I found an answer.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency(JAXA) launched "KAGUYA (SELENE)" by the H-IIA Launch Vehicle at 10:31:01 a.m. on September 14, 2007 (JST) from Tanegashima Space Center, a main orbiting satellite at about 100km altitude and two small satellites (Relay Satellite and VRAD Satellite) in polar orbit. At JAXA high resolution photos and live videos from the satelitte can be seen, debunking the moon hoax.

That was taken from the Moon Landing Hoax Wiki page here.

JAXA Website

They are planning on doing full hi res imaging of the moon, and already have evidence of the landers.

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: Sawyer
Why can we see planets millions of miles away even different galaxies, but they can't show us up close and detailed pics of the moon?

Maybe because we can't "see" planets millions of miles away even different galaxies, we can detect their presence from their gravitational influence on other bodies of matter, like stars.

Anyway, get your stupid moon hoax conspiracy crap out of here.


Cool vids, OP, although the moon seemed to be in kind of a forced perspective. You can just kind of get a hint of that as it goes out of frame, that it's really smaller and farther away from the earth than it appears.

 

[SAWYER]

I believe we landed but it would be cool to see the landing site

 

[Shawn]

Someone please ban Citrix, k thanks.

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: Sawyer
I believe we landed but it would be cool to see the landing site

Okay, I agree. I guess the answer here is that there hasn't always been a lot of interest in ultra-high resolution photos of the moon. Mapping, yes... but a clear pic of the landing site would require resolution nearly good enough to read a license plate, and the government has all those satellites pointed at the earth.

 

[BW86]

sweet vid

 

[Oceandevi]

Originally posted by: Homerboy
meh

I prefer the CGI versions.

yeah surprisingly ugly