US EditionHow Artemis II's Earthset photo compares with the iconic Earthrise image from 1968
The crew snapped about 7,000 images on the mission, including a wide-angle Earth-moon portrait that NASA says echoes the 1968 Earthrise.
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The United States Space Agency (Nassa) released on this Tuesday two new images of Lua made during the mission Artemis II, the first trip to Lua in more than 50 years. The day, which lasted ten days and was followed all over the world, ended with a return and a perfect kiss of the Orion Capsule in the Pacific Ocean on Saturday night. Orion Capsule landed in the Pacific Ocean at 21h07, in Brazil's time near the coast of San Diego, in the American …
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Astronaut Jeremy Hansen takes a picture through the camera shroud covering a window on the Orion spacecraft. NASAIn early April 2026, the Artemis II mission captivated me and millions of people watching from across the world. The crew’s courage, skill and infectious wonder served as tangible proof of human persistence and technological achievement, all against the mysterious backdrop of space. People back on Earth got to witness the mission thro…
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The Artemis II astronauts have safely returned from their historic voyage around the moon. On April 10, their Orion spacecraft entered Earth’s atmosphere at more than 38,000 kilometers per hour (24,000 miles per hour). At that speed, friction caused the outside of the capsule to heat up to nearly 2,800° Celsius (5,100° Fahrenheit). A special heat shield on the spacecraft protected the astronauts inside. Upon reaching an altitude of about 7 kilom…
The Artemis II mission told in a single photo
In this side-by-side portrait, a craggy gray moon dwarfs the blue crescent Earth, revealing our world as distant and isolated in the vastness of space. But that loneliness fades with perspective. More than 8 billion people are looking back from that tiny place in the universe — figuratively speaking, of course.Commander Reid Wiseman took this photo on Monday, April 6, from inside NASA's Orion spacecraft during the Artemis II mission. With the mo…
How Artemis II's Earthset photo compares with the iconic Earthrise image from 1968
As NASA's Artemis II mission completed its lunar flyby, the astronauts sent back a stunning image of the colorful Earth setting behind the moon. This breathtaking photo, called Earthset, draws inevitable comparisons with the original Earthrise photo from the Apollo 8 flight in 1968.
The Nasa released on this Tuesday (13) new photos taken during the Artemis II Mission. The images, captured on 6 April, show the birth of the Earth “in a growing form” and a “close-up of the most distant part of the Moon”. I return to Earth after a ten-day journey around the Moon, the four astronauts of the Artemis II Mission returned to Earth on Saturday (10). They started the return to the Earth’s atmosphere around 20h56 and added to the 21h07…
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