NASA has released some astonishingly detailed images captured by the Orion spacecraft as it passed within 79 miles of the lunar surface earlier this week.

NASA’s Orion Is Taking These Amazing Photos During Its Mission to the Moon. Seeing the earth, where we call home, as a pale blue dot in the sky is both incredibly humbling and inspiring.

Stunning photos recap the Orion capsule's journey around the moon with NASA's Artemis I mission By Andrea Leinfelder. Updated: 10 a.m. Dec. 12, 2022 NASA ...

What makes this newest Orion photo of the Moon and Earth so fascinating, though, ... (@NASA_Orion) November 29, 2022. Further, this image was taken 268,563 miles away from Earth.

(CNN) — NASA released a selfie taken by the Orion capsule and close-up photos of the moon’s crater-marked landscape as the spacecraft continues on the Artemis 1 mission, a 25-and-a-half day ...

While preparing to enter what NASA calls a distant retrograde orbit, the Orion capsule also managed to capture a photo of the Moon’s surface as it came within 80 miles of our lunar body.

NASA's Orion spacecraft captured new images of the lunar surface. Credit: NASA. When a space rock slams into the moon, the impact crater often stays for billions of years, almost frozen in time.

NASA released a selfie taken by the Orion capsule and close-up photos of the moon's crater-marked landscape as the spacecraft continues on the Artemis 1 mission, a 25-and-a-half day journey that ...

NASA and Lockheed Martin officials pose together during a handover ceremony for the Artemis 2 Orion spacecraft at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 1, 2025. (Image credit: NASA/Cory S. Huston) ...

NASA’s Orion spacecraft successfully checked in with NASA today after firing its maneuvering engine over the moon. Shortly after that engine firing at 6:44 a.m. CST, NASA reports Orion passed 81 ...

NASA released a selfie taken by the Orion capsule and close-up photos of the moon’s crater-marked landscape as the spacecraft continues on the Artemis 1 mission, a 25-and-a-half day journey that ...