Is it a bird, a plane, or Superman?
Last month, NASA captured images of part of a mysterious, almost bullet-shaped object near the moon’s surface. announced by the Space Administration on Friday’s show.
A photo taken by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) shows an object with a thin horizontal line that resembles the board of the Marvel character Silver Surfer.
But this intriguing subject doesn’t belong in the world of comic books, superhero movies, or even UFOs. It belongs to Korea.
According to NASA, LRO produced multiple images of its South Korean counterpart, the Korea Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics’ Danuri lunar probe, as they sped past each other in parallel but opposite directions between March 5 and 6. It is said that the photo was taken.
Images of Danuri, which has been orbiting the moon since December 2022, are distorted because the relative speed between Danuri and LRO is extremely fast, about 7,200 miles per hour.
As a result, LRO’s camera’s short exposure time produced a photo of the South Korean spacecraft smeared to 10 times its size in the opposite direction of travel.
Danuri is South Korea’s first lunar probe, and LRO has been orbiting Earth’s natural satellite for 15 years.
The LRO operations team at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland precisely aimed its camera at the right time and place to catch a glimpse of Danuri. The space agency said it was a feat that required “exquisite timing.”
In a role reversal last spring, Danuri photographed LRO as it passed about 11 miles above the U.S. spacecraft on April 7.
