Astronauts continuing their journey to the Moon as part of the Artemis II mission have shared stunning new photos of Earth’s satellite. Images taken from the Orion spacecraft show a part of the Orientale Basin, a region of the Moon never before seen by the human eye.
“Elchi” reports that in a statement released by NASA, it was noted that the shadowed crater, approximately 965 kilometers wide, represents a critical transition zone between the Moon’s visible and dark sides.
Previously imaged only by robotic vehicles, this region has been recorded for the first time during a human mission.
The far side of the Moon was imaged this clearly for the first time
NASA astronaut Christina Koch described her first impressions of the Moon’s Far Side, rarely seen or observed from Earth, as “absolutely magnificent.” Koch stated that the view they saw was very different from the usual image of the Moon, and she felt that something had changed.
Photographs taken inside the Orion capsule show that in the early days of the mission, the Earth-oriented perspective gave way to this silvery sphere as they approached the Moon. Astronauts reported that as the journey continued, the Moon appeared progressively larger when viewed from Orion’s windows.
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