South Korean Orbiter Pamer Injection Indah Bumi From The Moon

Photo of the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), the image shows Earth rising above the lunar horizon. (photo: dock. Korea Aerospace Research Institute)

JAKARTA - Some time ago NASA's Artemis I mission showed how the Earth, which was photographed from the Moon, is now South Korea's turn to show off.

South Korea is known to launch its first lunar mission in August 2022, with the Korean spacecraft Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO) arriving in lunar orbit in December 2022.

Recently, KPLO sent back some of the stunning images of Earth as seen from the Moon. Directed by the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), the image shows Earth rising above the lunar horizon, taken using a high-resolution KPLO camera.

The spacecraft, also known as Danuri, aims to survey the Moon to find resources such as water and metal.

Furthermore, the image was taken on December 24 and December 28, when the plane was at a distance of 344 km and 124 km from the lunar surface.

Both show the moon's field in the foreground with Earth's towering beautiful marble above the horizon, taken using the Lunar Terrain Imager (LUTI) instrument to be used to search for locations for future landing missions.

Launching Digital Trends, Monday, January 9, the instrument can take images of the lunar surface with a spatial resolution of about 5 meters, and is conducting reconnaissance on behalf of a planned lunar landing robot mission from South Korea in the 2030s.

According to KARI, Danuri is currently doing work such as checking load performance, adjusting errors is scheduled to carry out full-scale science and technology missions starting February.

Danuri will work with six of its science instruments, including cameras, magnetometers, spectrometers, and mapping tools provided by NASA to map icewater locations in permanent shadow areas.

Interestingly, Danuri will also test new communication technologies in a fun way. Like the Delay-Tolerant Networking Experiment aims to create a lunar lander communication system that can handle downturns in connectivity, and test it by playing one of the Dynamite songs from BTS.