﻿ 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. Tomorrow's picture: galaxies dance __________________________________________________________________ [29]< | [30]Archive | [31]Submissions | [32]Index | [33]Search | [34]Calendar | [35]RSS | [36]Education | [37]About APOD | [38]Discuss | [39]> __________________________________________________________________ Authors & editors: [40]Robert Nemiroff ([41]MTU) & [42]Jerry Bonnell ([43]UMCP) NASA Official: Phillip Newman [44]Specific rights apply. [45]NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices A service of: [46]ASD at [47]NASA / [48]GSFC & [49]Michigan Tech. U. References 1. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html 2. https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ilifg26TZrI?rel=0 3. https://www.nasa.gov/ 4. https://lunar.gsfc.nasa.gov/ 5. https://gestar.usra.edu/about-gestar/directory/ernest-wright/ 6. https://www.usra.edu/ 7. https://gestar.usra.edu/about-gestar/directory/david-ladd/ 8. https://www.usra.edu/ 9. https://www.universalproductionmusic.com/en-us 10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederik_Wiedmann 11. https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_2222.html 12. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_13#/media/File:Apollo_13_timeline.svg 13. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100417.html 14. https://history.nasa.gov/afj/ap13fj/index.html 15. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap161230.html 16. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/apollo-mission-control-reopens-in-all-its-historic-glory 17. https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13537 18. https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/earths-moon/overview/ 19. https://lunar.gsfc.nasa.gov/about.html 20. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ilifg26TZrI 21. https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/solar-system/sun/in-depth/ 22. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap010428.html 23. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap181224.html 24. https://www.nasa.gov/content/members-of-apollo-13-team-reflect-on-nasas-finest-hour 25. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmGP4o272ac 26. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Ocean 27. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_13#/media/File:Apollo13_splashdown.jpg 28. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap070325.html 29. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200302.html 30. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html 31. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/apsubmit2015.html 32. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/aptree.html 33. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search 34. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/allyears.html 35. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod.rss 36. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/edlinks.html 37. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html 38. http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=200303 39. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200304.html 40. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html 41. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/ 42. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html 43. http://www.astro.umd.edu/ 44. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html#srapply 45. https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html 46. https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/ 47. https://www.nasa.gov/ 48. https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/ 49. http://www.mtu.edu/