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Orion captures the Moon and Earth

Orion in the foreground with Earth in the distance and the Moon between them.

On the day of the Artemis II lunar flyby, a camera mounted on the solar array wing of the Orion spacecraft captured an image of Earth, which appears as a thin crescent, about to set below the horizon of the Moon. (Credit: NASA)

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Image date: April 6, 2026

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