Orion captured the new images during its recent flyby, when the uncrewed capsule came to just 80 miles of the lunar surface.
The Moon is a cold, dead, and desolate place, as these new images, captured by NASA’s Orion, attest.the first of two course correction maneuvers required for entry into a distant retrograde orbit.
It was during this course correction that Orion performed its closest approach to the Moon, coming to within 80 miles of the lunar surface. Naturally, NASA took the opportunity to snap a bunch of cool photos, which the space agency
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