Earth, Artemis and Space missions
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Astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft release captivating images of Earth from the first crewed lunar mission in more than half a century.
Part of Artemis II's mission includes collecting samples of ice from the moon that will be compared to Earth’s oceans.
NASA's Artemis II mission shared its first image of Earth from space as astronauts prepare for a historic journey to the moon.
In an unusual perspective for an Earth-observing satellite, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission captured this image of the moon, Earth's only natural satellite. The Sentinel-2 mission acquired this lunar image by rolling one of its satellites sideways to view the moon instead of Earth.
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Astronauts aboard Artemis 2 and the ISS connected across a record-breaking Earth–moon distance in the farthest crew call ever made in space.