Astronomy Picture of the Day

   [1]Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our
      fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation
                    written by a professional astronomer.

                                2020 March 3

         IFRAME: [2]https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ilifg26TZrI?rel=0

                         Apollo 13 Views of the Moon
     Video Credit: [3]NASA, [4]LRO; Data Visualization: [5]Ernie Wright
       ([6]USRA); Video Production & Editing: [7]David Ladd ([8]USRA);
   Music: Visions of Grandeur, [9]Universal Production Music, [10]Fredrick
                                  Wiedmann

   Explanation: What if the only way to get back to Earth was to go around
   the far side of the Moon? Such was the dilemma of the [11]Apollo 13
   Crew in 1970 as they tried to [12]return home in their unexpectedly
   [13]damaged spacecraft. With the Moon in the middle, their [14]perilous
   journey substituted spectacular views of the [15]lunar farside for
   radio contact with NASA's [16]Mission Control. These views have now
   been [17]digitally recreated from detailed images of the [18]Moon taken
   by the robotic [19]Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. The [20]featured video
   starts by showing Earth disappear behind a dark lunar limb, while eight
   minutes later the [21]Sun rises around the opposite side of the Moon
   and begins to illuminate the Moon's unusual and [22]spectacularly
   cratered surface. Radio contact was only re-established several minutes
   after that, as a crescent [23]Earth rose into view. With the gravity of
   the Moon and the advice of many industrious [24]NASA engineers and
   scientists, a few days later [25]Apollo 13 opened its parachutes over
   the [26]Pacific Ocean and [27]landed safely back on [28]Earth.

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