{"id":183089,"date":"2024-02-19T17:24:21","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T23:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/check-out-these-cool-earth-images-from-latest-moon-mission"},"modified":"2024-02-19T17:24:21","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T23:24:21","slug":"check-out-these-cool-earth-images-from-latest-moon-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/check-out-these-cool-earth-images-from-latest-moon-mission","title":{"rendered":"Check out these cool Earth images from latest moon mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/check-out-these-cool-earth-images-from-latest-moon-mission3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Intuitive Machines <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Int_Machines\/status\/1759363453112713547\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> its team programmed the lander\u2019s wide and narrow field-of-view cameras \u201cto take five quick images every five minutes for two hours, starting 100 seconds after separating from SpaceX\u2019s second stage,\u201d adding that \u201cout of all the images collected, Intuitive Machines chose to show humanity\u2019s place in the universe with four wonderful images we hope [will] inspire the next generation of risk-takers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a mission update, Intuitive Machines said that Odysseus \u201ccontinues to be in excellent health\u201d as mission IM-1 makes its way toward the moon for a touchdown scheduled to take place on Thursday. \u201cFlight controllers are preparing planned trajectory correction maneuvers to prepare the lander for lunar orbit insertion,\u201d the company added in its message.<\/p>\n<p>If Intuitive Machines manages to perform a successful soft landing with Odysseus, it will become the first private company to achieve the feat. It will also mark the first soft lunar landing by a U.S. spacecraft since the final Apollo mission in 1972.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intuitive Machines said its team programmed the lander\u2019s wide and narrow field-of-view cameras \u201cto take five quick images every five minutes for two hours, starting 100 seconds after separating from SpaceX\u2019s second stage,\u201d adding that \u201cout of all the images collected, Intuitive Machines chose to show humanity\u2019s place in the universe with four wonderful images [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}