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NASA’s Artemis II astronauts have sent stunning images of Earth as they approached the moon. A photo captured by Commander Reid Wiseman showed a curved slice of Earth framed by the Orion capsule’s window.
A second image revealed the entire globe, with its oceans crowned with white clouds and a glowing green aurora.
Another photo captured the stark divide between night and day on Earth, known as the terminator.
As of yesterday afternoon, NASA’s crew in the spacecraft were over 180,000 kilometres from Earth, with another 240,000 kilometres to reach the near-moon orbit at their destination, probably by Monday.
The team of three Americans and one Canadian has planned a swing around the moon in their Orion capsule, executed a U-turn and returned directly to Earth without landing.
The team became the first travellers to the Moon since Apollo 17 in 1972.
