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NASA releases first photos of Earth from Artemis II

04-04-2026 09:06 AM


Ammon News - NASA just posted one of the first photos from Artemis II, capturing "Spaceship Earth" in all its blue-and-white glory.

In the photo, taken by mission commander Reid Wiseman: Two auroras (top right and bottom left), plus "zodiacal light" in the bottom right.

That's sunlight scattered by interplanetary dust.
Artemis II is now Moonbound, with a six-hour lunar orbit planned for Monday. (Mission updates ... Live tracker.)

Newly added to the plan: A solar eclipse, with the Sun hidden behind the Moon from the crew's perspective.

NASA calls it an "opportunity for them to look for flashes of light from meteoroids striking the Moon's surface, dust lofting above the edge of the Moon, and deep space targets, including planets."

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