Artemis II crew take 'spectacular' image of Earth
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“Nasa has shared the first high-resolution images of the Earth taken by the Artemis II crew as they head on their trip around the Moon.”
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— Artemis II is an ongoing U.S. spaceflight to send four astronauts on a flyby around the Moon and back to Earth. Launched from Kennedy Space Center on April 1, 2026, the ten-day mission is crewed by NA…
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— Artemis III is planned to be the second crewed mission of the NASA-led Artemis lunar exploration program. The mission's objectives are to conduct tests in low Earth orbit with one or both commercially…
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— The Artemis program is a Moon exploration program led by the United States' National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), formally established in 2017 through Space Policy Directive 1. By 2028…
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“The mission's commander, Reid Wiseman, took the 'spectacular' images, Nasa says, after the crew completed a final engine burn that set them on a trajectory towards our closest celestial neighbour.”
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— Gregory Reid Wiseman (born November 11, 1975) is an American astronaut and naval aviator. He is presently the commander of the 2026 Artemis II lunar flyby mission, the first crewed flight around the M…
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— Artemis II is an ongoing U.S. spaceflight to send four astronauts on a flyby around the Moon and back to Earth. Launched from Kennedy Space Center on April 1, 2026, the ten-day mission is crewed by NA…
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— Hello, World, is a photograph of Earth taken on April 2, 2026, by Reid Wiseman aboard the Artemis II spacecraft on its way toward the Moon for a lunar flyby.
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“The first image, called Hello, World, shows the vast expanse of blue that is the Atlantic Ocean, framed by a thin glow of the atmosphere as the Earth eclipses the Sun and green auroras at either pole.”
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— Atlantic: The Wildest Ocean on Earth (also known as Wild Atlantic for European release) is a three-part BBC nature documentary series exploring the natural history of the Atlantic Ocean. It was first …
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— The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about 85,133,000 square kilometers (32,870,000 sq mi). It covers approximately 17% of Earth's surface an…
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— The borders of the oceans are the limits of Earth's oceanic waters. The definition and number of oceans can vary depending on the adopted criteria. The principal divisions (in descending order of area…
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“The Earth appears to us as upside down, with the western Sahara and Iberian peninsula visible to the left and the eastern portion of South America to the right.”
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“Nasa identified the bright planet to the bottom right as Venus.”
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“The images were taken after the crew successfully completed a trans-lunar injection burn in the early hours of Friday.”
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“The burn took the Orion spacecraft out of Earth's orbit as the four astronauts aboard aim to travel the more than 200,000 miles to the Moon.”
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“Artemis II is now on a looping path that will carry the crew around the far side of the Moon and back again. It is the first time since 1972 that humans have travelled outside of the Earth's orbit.”
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“The crew should pass around the far side of the Moon on 6 April and return to Earth on 10 April.”
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“After the burn was completed, the crew were 'glued to the windows' taking pictures, mission specialist Jeremy Hansen told mission control in Houston.”
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“Wiseman later called back down to mission control in Houston to ask how to clean the windows, as the astronauts' enthusiasm to see into space had left them dirty.”
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“Another view captured by Wiseman shows the Earth divided by night and day. That frontier between light and darkness is known as the terminator.”
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