On the sixth day of the Artemis 1 mission, NASA‘s Orion Capsule brought back some magnificent images of the moon’s surface. The Artemis 1 mission’s spacecraft cruised 130 kilometres (80 miles) above the lunar surface at its closest approach. The image was collected using Orion’s optical navigational system, which records black-and-white photographs of the Earth and moon at various phases and ranges, according to the caption of the NASA post.
NASA released four images of various sections of the moon on Thursday, along with a lengthy text that began, “No crater photos than these.” The photographs shared on Instagram are reported to be the closest to the moon since the Apollo mission ended in 1975.
“No crater photos than these,” NASA posted on Instagram before going into detail about the moon’s major regions that were photographed.
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The first slide is a black-and-white photograph of the moon’s surface, which is covered in various sized craters. The moon is depicted in the image in various shades of grey. The following two images are close-ups of the moon. The fourth image in this series is the most close to the surface and depicts craters within craters as well as the texture of the moon scarred by asteroid and meteor impacts.
It will be the first time in more than a half-century that a space capsule has completed a moon flyby. Artemis I is an unmanned mission that will put NASA’s Space Launch System rocket and the Orion spacecraft through their paces before astronauts take to the skies on a future project. According to NDTV, if the mission is successful, Artemis I will be followed by a human trip around the moon (Artemis II) in 2024, which could result in the first woman and person of colour landing on the moon.
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