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What a sight! 👀😳  On November 28, 2022, day 13 of the @NasaArtemis mission, the Orion capsule captured the Earth transiting behind the Moon as it reached its farthest distance from Earth, 268,563 miles (432, 210 km), the farthest any spacecraft designed to carry humans has ever reached

The very first photo of Jupiter was taken in 1879 by the Irish astronomer Agnes Mary Clerk. From there we can see a major improvement in observing astronomical objects and we can actually see in great detail Jupiter, a planet located 700 million km (434 million miles) away. Jupiter observations improved massively when the Juno space probe arrived in the planet's orbit in 2016 (after a 5 year journey). Since then, Juno gathered a plethora of data about the magnetosphere, atmosphere, gravitational fields and Jupiter's moons. Currently, Juno is still orbiting Jupiter and will continue to do so until 2025 when the spacecraft will be deliberately burned up in Jupiter's atmosphere 

SPLASHDOWN! NASA’s Orion Returns to Earth After Historic Moon Mission

The uncrewed Orion capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean at 9:40 a.m. PST on Sunday, Dec. 11, after a 25.5 day mission to the Moon. 

During the mission, Orion performed two lunar flybys, coming within 80 miles of the lunar surface. At its farthest distance during the mission, Orion traveled nearly 270,000 miles from Earth, farther than any other spacecraft built for humans, to intentionally stress systems before flying crew, to make it as safe as possible.

We are going to the moon! This video shows different stages of the Artemis I mission, (bottom)is the launch, (middle) is the beginning of the journey, and (top) is Orion at 9.5 hours into the trip to the moon.

Artemis I is an uncrewed flight test that will provide a foundation for human deep space exploration, and demonstrate our capability to extend human existence to the Moon and beyond.

• Launch site: Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida

• Launch date: Nov. 16, 2022

• Mission Duration: 25 days, 11 hours, 36 minutes

• Destination: distant retrograde orbit around the Moon

• Return to  Earth: Dec. 11, 2022  The mission will end with the Orion capsule (which will hold the crew of astronauts for future missions) splashing down in the Pacific Ocean after reentering Earth's atmosphere

• Orion will stay in space longer than any human spacecraft has without docking to a space station 

• Artemis I mission will demonstrate the performance of both Orion and the SLS rocket and test our capabilities to orbit the Moon and return to Earth safely

• If all goes well with Artemis I, Nasa will fly astronauts on the next mission called Artemis II, to orbit the moon, perhaps in the year 2024. And if that goes well, it's time for Artemis III, which will land astronauts on the surface of the moon for a few days, while they perform scientific studies