FUTURISM
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spotted a bizarre sliver of an object speeding above the lunar surface last month.
And as it turns out, we’re not looking at a UFO — or, uh, maybe an Unidentified Lunar Object — because there’s a perfectly human explanation for the lunar apparition.
It turns out that the LRO’s image was photobombed by the Korea Aerospace Research Institute’s Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO), otherwise known as Danuri, which is “traveling in nearly parallel orbits,” according to a NASA statement.
Despite their similar orbits, it still took impeccable timing to catch a glimpse of the spacecraft — an engineering feat in and of itself.
