Watch the moon eclipse Earth in stunning video from Artemis 1's Orion spacecraft - Space.com

The astonishing imagery keeps connected coming from NASA's Artemis 1 satellite mission.

Artemis 1's uncrewed Orion capsule has been beaming location great shots of Earth and its earthy satellite since lifting disconnected atop a Space Launch System rocket connected Nov. 16. 

NASA shared yet much of this oculus candy connected Wednesday (Dec. 7), successful a Twitter station that celebrated different celebrated satellite mission.

"50 years ago, the Apollo 17 astronauts captured an iconic Earth presumption of the 'Blue Marble' arsenic they acceptable sights connected the moon. Today with #Artemis, this time-lapse footage showcases the Earth-moon transit arsenic @NASA_Orion captured our location satellite and the satellite connected formation time 13," NASA's Johnson Space Center tweeted (opens successful caller tab).

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Flight time 13 was Nov. 28, the time that Orion ventured the farthest from Earth that it volition get during the Artemis 1 mission. That region — 268,563 miles (432,210 kilometers) — is the caller grounds for a spacecraft designed to transportation humans. 

The erstwhile region people was held by NASA's near-disastrous Apollo 13 mission, which had to loop astir the moon alternatively than onshore successful April 1970 aft suffering a superior nonaccomplishment not agelong aft liftoff. 

Orion was inactive looping astir the satellite connected Nov. 28; it arrived successful a lunar distant retrograde orbit connected Nov. 25 and departed from that way connected Dec. 1.

On Dec. 5, the capsule performed a 3.5-minute-long motor pain during a adjacent flyby of the moon, a maneuver that set the capsule connected people for Earth. If each goes according to plan, Orion volition instrumentality to its location satellite with a Pacific Ocean splashdown connected Dec. 11, bringing an extremity to the Artemis 1 mission.

Dec. 11 was besides an important day for Apollo 17. On that time successful 1972, astronauts Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt landed connected the satellite successful their lunar module, named Challenger. The duo explored the lunar aboveground for 75 hours earlier rejoining crewmate Ronald Evans successful the bid module successful lunar orbit. The trio returned to Earth connected Dec. 19, 1972.

No astronaut has been backmost to the satellite since, but NASA is moving to alteration that with its Artemis program. The bureau aims to motorboat astronauts astir the satellite connected Artemis 2 successful 2024 and enactment boots down adjacent the lunar southbound rod a twelvemonth oregon 2 aboriginal connected the Artemis 3 mission.

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