In the new photos, you can see many craters, which are traces of falling meteorites.
The Orion spacecraft got as close as possible to the Moon and took new pictures of Earth’s natural satellite. Craters can be seen in black and white images. This was announced on Friday, November 25, by NASA.
They clarified that the photos were taken on the sixth day of Artemis’ mission. The Orion spacecraft took satellite images from a distance of 128 kilometers.
The image was taken using the Orion optical navigation system, which captured black and white images of the Earth and the Moon at different phases and distances.
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Recall that this flight took place as part of the first part of the Artemis mission, which was designed to deliver a man to the moon.
NASA capsule successfully flew to the moon for the first time in 50 years. The last time this happened was in 1969.
Recall that the spacecraft was launched on November 16 by a Space Launch System super-heavy launch vehicle as part of the Artemis 1 mission from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The Artemis 1 mission got as close as possible to the moon
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