Our planet appears to emerge from a black void.
"You are seeing the Earth; you are seeing home. You are seeing yourself in that image right there as Orion is 232,000 miles [373,000 kilometers] away from planet Earth," NASA spokesperson Sandra Jones said during live coverage of the Orion lunar flyby on NASA Television.
Live viewers on Monday also saw Earth setting behind the moon in the moments before Orion lost communication, as expected, to perform its engine maneuver on the lunar far side, which radio waves from our planet cannot reach. The Artemis 1 mission is testing the readiness of Orion and NASA's huge Space Launch System rocket for future missions of the Artemis program, which will continue with theWhy Am I Taller
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