Israeli Lander captures the sunrise and stretches the legs during a lunar journey (video)

A robotic lander in space has just shot an amazing video of the lunar sunrise as it zoomed toward the moon.

the Israeli Beresheet, which was launched in space in February, broadcast a video on Earth showing the sunrise – as well as a second video showing the legs coming out of the LG in what was probably a test exercise.

SpaceIL, the organization that plans to put this machine on the moon, will likely use these videos to calibrate its videos and equipment in anticipation of the epic landing, but for the public, these panoramas are literally out of this world. world.

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Sunrise Video from #Beresheet From the spacecraft's point of view. In the video, #earth can be seen hiding the sun, then coming out of the same shadow created by the Earth and the sun's exposure. This process creates a kind of sunrise image! #IsraelToTheMoon @ILAerospaceIAI pic.twitter.com/y6IR80oz73March 24, 2019

"Sunrise Video of #Beresheet", SpaceIL says on Twitter, displaying an emoji of a sun with the comments of the organization. "From the point of view of the spaceship, in the video you can see #earth hide the sun # then come out of the same shadow created by the Earth and the sun's exposure.This process creates a kind of picture at sunrise! "

Beresheet has a long history behind it. SpaceIL was one of the participants in the Google Lunar X Prize, supposed to land on the first commercially funded spacecraft. The contest is over with person claiming the prize before the deadline. But the development of Beresheet persists, culminating in a safe takeoff aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

Initially, the mission encountered a problem in space when an engine did not fire as it was supposed to do to send the spacecraft to the moon. But Beresheet recovered from glitch; after rebooting the computer and other troubleshooting procedures, the engine started as scheduled on February 28.

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