FREE RETURN / HIGH EARTH ORBIT / ART002-E-25333
Artemis II · High Earth orbit · April 2, 2026
Earth from high orbit, 52,332 km up
Taken April 2, 2026 at 18:48:09 UTC (Apr 2, 2:48 PM EDT), mission time T+00d 20:13:09, with a Nikon D5 at 35 mm. Orion was 58,710 km (36,481 mi) from Earth.
- Taken
- April 2, 2026 at 18:48:09 UTC · Apr 2, 2:48 PM EDT
- Mission time
- T+00d 20:13:09
- Camera
- Nikon D5 · 35 mm lens
- From Earth
- 58,710 km · 36,481 mi
- Below Orion
- 27.9°S 164.6°E on Earth
- Chapter
- High Earth orbit — A day looping around Earth to check out Orion: life support, navigation, manual flying.
- NASA record
- ART002-E-25333 on NASA's Gateway to Astronaut Photography ↗
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