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                        Astronomy Picture of the Day

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                               2026 January 24

                             Earthset from Orion
                        Image Credit: NASA, Artemis 1

   Explanation: Eight billion people are about to disappear in this
   snapshot from space taken on 2022 November 21. On the sixth day of the
   Artemis I mission, their home world is setting behind the Moon's bright
   edge as viewed by an external camera on the outbound Orion spacecraft.
   Orion was headed for a powered flyby that took it to within 130
   kilometers of the lunar surface. Velocity gained in the flyby maneuver
   was used to reach a distant retrograde orbit around the Moon. That
   orbit is considered distant because it's another 92,000 kilometers
   beyond the Moon, and retrograde because the spacecraft orbited in the
   opposite direction of the Moon's orbit around planet Earth. Swinging
   around the Moon, Orion reached a maximum distance (just over 400,000
   kilometers) from Earth on 2022 November 28, exceeding a record set by
   Apollo 13 for most distant spacecraft designed for human space
   exploration. The Artemis II mission, carrying 4 astronauts around the
   moon and back again, is due to launch as early as February 6.

                       Tomorrow's picture: doomed moon
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