US EditionNASA releases stunning new ‘Earthset’ image taken during historic lunar flyby
The White House shared the image as the four astronauts logged about 10,000 photos and broke Apollo 13’s distance record, NASA said.
- On Tuesday, NASA released historic images of Earth captured from the Moon's far side, marking a milestone in human spaceflight. The photograph titled "Humanity From the Other Side" was taken by the Artemis II crew during their lunar flyby on Monday.
- During their Monday flyby, the Artemis II crew established a new distance record. Commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen reached 252,756 miles from Earth, surpassing Apollo 13's 1970 mark by more than 4,100 miles.
- Passing behind the Moon, the crew encountered a planned 40-minute communications blackout. Glover admitted there were "no adjectives" to capture the experience, while observing about 21% of the far side illuminated by the sun.
- Scheduled to splash down in the Pacific Ocean off San Diego on Friday, the four-member crew is now journeying home. After restoring communications, Koch remarked, "We will always choose Earth, we will always choose each other."
- Researchers will utilize these observations, including images of ancient lava flows and craters, to better understand lunar origins. This mission serves as a crucial step toward the broader Artemis program, which aims to return astronauts to the lunar surface and explore the Moon's south pole.
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Washington, 7 Apr (EFE).- NASA shared on Tuesday a series of images captured by the crew of the Artemis II mission during their passage through the hidden face of the moon, in the central phase of their mission. The images released in the official NASA X account, show a sequence of almost two minutes captured with the Orion capsule camera system that capture multiple angles and in 4k simultaneously. The graphic work was documented while the miss…
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Photos show stunning views of the moon and Earth from the Artemis II mission
The Artemis II astronauts — three Americans and one Canadian — hurtled deeper into space than any other humans during a moon flyby Monday that marks NASA’s lunar comeback. They were greeted by a total solar eclipse as they became…
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