US EditionNASA releases stunning new ‘Earthset’ image taken during historic lunar flyby
- 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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The Nasa has published historical images of the Earth that sets under the lunar horizon, more than 57 years after an iconic image of the Earth's dawn was captured by an astronaut of the Apollo 8.The members of the crew of Artemis II captured the image during the lunar overflight from the record of the mission, while the American astronaut Bill Anders triggered the legendary Earth's dawn during the first human crewed space mission around the Moon…
The real reason is the light situation of the Earth in each of the images.
NASA has released stunning new images taken by the Artemis 2 mission during its historic flyby of the moon. They include an updated image of Earth's sunset, a solar eclipse and details of the moon's craters. The four astronauts came within just 4,000 miles of our natural satellite.
Four astronauts on the Artemis 2 mission passed by the far side of the Moon on Tuesday night, Estonian time, and took a number of images and observations during the flyby. NASA has now released a selection of photos from the flyby.
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