NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped a photo of Korea's Danuri lunar orbiter as they passed each other at 7,200 MPH.
At the first imaging opportunity, LRO was oriented down 43 degrees from its typical position of looking down at the lunar surface to capture Danuri from 3 miles, or 5 kilometers, above it. | NASA/Goddard/Arizona State University
The LRO has been in orbit around the Moon for the last 15 years while Danuri has been in lunar orbit since December 2022. The two spacecraft flew past each other in opposite directions between March 5 and 6 this year and one of the LRO’s cameras, the narrow angle LROC, managed to capture photos during all three orbits where it happened to be close enough to Danuri to make such a feat possible. The closest encounter, above, gives the best view of the Korean spacecraft.
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