NASA’s Artemis I mission captures the closest images of the moon’s surface

NASA shared four images of different parts of the moon.

NASA’s Orion Capsule has sent back spectacular images of the moon. The spacecraft flew 130 km (80 mi) above the lunar surface during the Artemis 1 mission’s closest approach to Earth’s natural satellite.

The photo was taken using Orion’s optical navigation system, which captures black-and-white images of the Earth and moon at different phases and distances, NASA explained in an Instagram press release.

NASA shared four images of different parts of the moon. According to the post, the images released are the closest images from the satellite since the end of the Apollo program in 1975.

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The post went on to say, “Orion also passed the landing sites of Apollo 11, 12, and 14 and is on its way to a distant retrograde orbit, a high-altitude orbit that moves Orion in the opposite direction that the Moon travels around Earth. .⁣ “

It is the first time in half a century that a space capsule has flown past the moon. Artemis I is an uncrewed mission designed to test NASA’s Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft before astronauts ride on a future mission. If the mission succeeds, Artemis I will be followed by a human journey around the moon in 2024 (Artemis II) and could lead to the first woman and first person of color to land on the moon the following year.

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