This visualization is built from the components of ARTEMIS Mission with emphasis on the maneuvers of the two ARTEMIS spacecraft (red=ARTEMIS-1, green=ARTEMIS-2) around the lunar Lagrange Points L1 and L2.
As with the ARTEMIS Mission visual, we show the Earth, the Earth's magnetosphere, the Moon and Sun, with the direction of the Sun from the Earth indicated by the yellow arrow.
In this version, the satellite trails are are constructed in a lunar-centric inertial coordinate system so the trails reveal the motion of the satellites relative to the Lagrange points in INERTIAL space (fixed with the distant stars).
In this movie, the camera stays above the Moon's orbital plane for a better view of the motion in the orbital plane. For a change in perspective, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRGwxId81dE
credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
source: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?3786
Thanks for the upload.
Bladerunner55217 7 months ago
What the fuck?
Why are more folk not watching these, and why are the few who are not rating them up?
Has the world gone fuckin nut's?
Don't answer that! I already know, tragically.
martiangrundy 1 year ago