On the sixth day of the Artemis I mission, Orion's optical navigation camera was commanded to take this black-and-white photo of the lunar surface. Orion uses the optical navigation camera to capture imagery of the Earth and the Moon at different phases and distances, providing an enhanced body of data to certify its effectiveness under different lighting conditions as a way to help orient the spacecraft on future missions with crew
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Moon Orbit
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NASA
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On the sixth day of the Artemis I mission, Orion's optical navigation camera was commanded to take this black-and-white photo of the lunar surface. Orion uses the optical navigation camera to capture imagery of the Earth and the Moon at different phases and distances, providing an enhanced body of data to certify its effectiveness under different lighting conditions as a way to help orient the spacecraft on future missions with crew