Flight Day 17: Orion Points to Earth

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art001e001936 (Dec. 2, 2022) A camera mounted on one of Orion’s four solar arrays captured this image of the Earth on flight day 17 of the 25.5-day Artemis I mission from a distance of more than 222,000 miles. Orion has exited the distant lunar orbit and is heading for a Dec. 11 splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.

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