NASA Releases A Photo Of Orion Compating With The Moon Before Returning To Earth

Photo of the Moon produced by Orion (photo: dock. NASA)

JAKARTA - The Orion spacecraft has just circled the Moon as its final trajectory on its way back to Earth. On that occasion, Orion again displayed an amazing image of the Moon.

Uploaded by NASA, the photo was taken with a high-resolution camera which is actually a GoPro Hero 4, but has undergone massive modifications.

The camera was mounted at the end of the Orion solar panel, which shows the spacecraft surrounding the Moon and then gets a close-range shot from the far side of the Moon.

Orion has taken a lot of photos of the Moon, and most of them have low resolutions. Its first photo shows the Moon's surface covered in many holes with speckled and broken displays, likely because it was taken using the Orion Optical Navigation Camera rather than the GoPro on solar panels.

While when targeted with a GoPro camera, it produces a display that is too bright but has a pretty slick resolution.

However, the space photo is clearly not the main goal of the Artemis I mission, although there is nothing wrong with presenting a view of the Moon for fans of Earth's natural satellites.

Launching Engadget, Thursday, December 8, Orion's performance has so far been quite extraordinary, which he launched on November 15 as part of the Artemis 1 mission aboard NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket.

A few days ago, the plane had also completed engine combustion for three and a half minutes (longest on its way so far) to set it to land on December 11 in the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of California, USA.

The next mission, Artemis II, is scheduled for 2024 to take astronauts to a path similar to Artemis I without landing on the Moon. Then, humans will finally set foot on the lunar surface with Artemis III, which is scheduled to launch in 2025.