ORIGINAL – For this winter, NASA is offering you the opportunity to enjoy a virtual fireplace imagined from a video of the Artemis 1 mission, during which the rocket's engines were filmed
For several years now, people who do not have a fireplace or stove at home to enjoy a good fire in winter, and particularly during the end-of-year holidays, have had an alternative. Streaming platforms offer high definition videos, lasting several hours, which offer the sight and sound of a good fire – without the heat or the smell.
For the end of 2024, NASA has also decided to offer its own fireplace, like Netflix for example. But it is not a traditional fire: even if the video imitates a stone hearth, it is the vision of the engines of a rocket which is offered to viewers, reports Universe Today reported by Numerama.
A fireplace shaped by AI
The 4K video was uploaded on November 26 to NASA's YouTube channel. Eight hours long, it allows you to admire a “fire” generated by the four RS-25 engines of the Space Launch System (SLS), the enormous launcher of the American space agency, and by two thrusters.
NASA actually used the launch of the Artemis 1 mission, in November 2022, to create this video. Images of the SLS engines, which propelled a rocket into the (…) Read more on 20minutes
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