Nov 22(ABC): NASA’s Orion spacecraft, which lifted off last week as a part of the Artemis I mission, has captured a breathtaking image of the moon.
As the spacecraft swung past our natural satellite during its fly-by yesterday, it took the lunar photo and NASA shared it with the world.
Orion is supposed to move about the moon now that it has separated from the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket.
While the craft was manoeuvring 129km above the lunar surface, the crew module capture a high-resolution image of the moon. Successfully completed at 12:44 GMT (07:44 EST), the manoeuvre provided a unique angle and a remarkable close-up.
NASA’s official Twitter handle for the Artemis mission, @NASAArtemis published the photo. “The @NASA_Orion spacecraft captured this image of the Moon during its sixth day of flight, as it approached its first outbound powered flyby of the #Artemis I mission and its closest lunar approach,” the agency wrote in the caption.
