Things are different today. The crew of Artemis II—the first astronauts to venture to the moon since the flight of Apollo 17 in December 1972—have been beaming back images captured both on digital cameras and iPhones since their launch on April 1. Yesterday, April 6, they swung around the far side of the moon and fired back a fusillade of photos of the moon, the Earth, and life inside the cockpit from which the crew of four observed both worlds through their spacecraft’s five windows. Here are a few of the most remarkable images from their rhapsodic journey.
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Three hours into their swing around the far side of the moon, the crew captured this striking, high-angle image. The terminator—the line that separates the light and dark sides of the moon—is visible at the top left. The sharp angle of the sun creates long, stark shadows that throw the rugged lunar terrain into relief. Shadows of this kind helped the Apollo crews read the landscape as they descended.
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Just before lights-out at the end of a long work period on day five of their mission, the crew captured this pictue of the moon through one of their spacecraft's five windows. As they slept, they glided into what is known as the moon's sphere of influence, the point at which the gravity of the moon takes hold of the ship, pulling it away from the grip of the more-powerful, but now distant, earthly gravity.
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At the center of this image is Vavilov crater, near the smoother Hertzsprung basin. Flat, relatively crater-free areas on the moon were formed by ancient lava flows. Once again, the sharp angle of the sun makes for long, jagged shadows.
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Pilot Victor Glover, left, and mission specialist Christina Koch take their turns at the windows observing and photographing the moon. The crew spent a total of seven hours accumulating lunar images. At their closest approach they were just 4,067 miles from the surface of the moon.
—NASARecalling the celebrated Earthrise picture taken during the 1968 mission of Apollo 8, the crew captured "Earthset" as they observed the crescent Earth above the moon at 6:41 p.m. on April 6. The portion of the Earth that is illuminated covers the Australia and Oceana region. Ohm crater is visible on the lunar surface.
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