NASA is regularly releasing high-definition images of the Moon and Earth taken by astronauts during the Artemis II Moon mission. These images, which have garnered millions of likes on social media, show the two bodies from unusual angles.
The four astronauts are traveling to a distance no one has reached since 1972 — farther from the Earth's surface. According to NASA, the crew is observing the transit of the Earth and the Moon with such awe that instructions on how to clean the window in the Orion spacecraft have also been sent.
This time, digital cameras were taken on a long journey for the first time. There are 32 cameras and devices on Orion: 15 are installed on the spacecraft, and 17 are handheld by the crew. The astronauts are using standard cameras like Nikon D5, GoPro, and smartphones.
Commander Reid Wiseman took the "Hello, World" photo from a distance of 228,500 km from Earth and 212,500 km from the Moon. The images show the Earth with two auroras trailing the Sun and the glowing planet Venus in the lower part.
On Saturday, NASA released another image, adding the slogan "making history" to it.
According to NASA, this image was taken before flying past the Moon, and the crew had covered a mysterious distance of 6,540 km from the far side. "This entire basin was seen by human eyes for the first time," the agency says.
