NASA Artemis astronauts capture images of Earth during journey to orbit moon
發佈日期: 2026-04-04 20:43
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Astronauts on board NASA's Artemis have captured our blue planet's brilliant beauty as they zoom ever closer to the moon.
NASA also released the crew's first downlinked images Friday, one-and-a-half days into the first astronaut moonshot in more than half a century.
NASA astronauts flying on the Artemis spacecraft described the extraordinary things they have seen a few days into their mission.
Astronaut Jeremy Hansen said: Gosh on our first day in space, we saw some extraordinary things. We were out there at 60,000km, we came back to within 200km of the planet, and it just felt like we were falling out of the sky back to Earth. And I said to Reid (Wiseman, fellow astronaut), I feel like we're going to hit it. It's amazing that we're actually going to go around and miss this thing. It was just so close. And so to take all of that in was really phenomenal.
NASA described the images the space crew took of the Earth. NASA's Lakiesha Hawkins said: "You know, it's great to get some very clear video and images of the crew yesterday, and the crew configured their cameras aboard Integrity, and we have some of the latest images to share with you. This first one we got to the ground shows the unique vantage point of the crew as they look back at the Earth. It shows a backlit Earth revealing auroras as the crew heads towards the moon. You know it's great to think that, with the exception of our four friends, all of us are represented in this image. This one shows Earth, as you can see, the Terminator line. And Reed also took this photo after a translunar injection burned yesterday. What an amazing shot that he shared with us here."
The three Americans and one Canadian will swing around the moon in their Orion capsule, hang a U-turn and then head straight back home without stopping. They are the first lunar travellers since Apollo 17 in 1972.
