{"id":588414,"date":"2026-04-07T17:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T17:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/588414\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T17:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T17:05:09","slug":"see-the-first-close-up-photos-of-the-moon-from-nasas-artemis-ii-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/588414\/","title":{"rendered":"See the first close-up photos of the moon from NASA’s Artemis II mission"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the first time, humans have glimpsed the entire far side of the moon with their own eyes \u2014 and their photos are beginning to come in.<\/p>\n

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In what was the most highly anticipated moment of the Artemis II mission, four astronauts flew around the moon<\/a> Monday, snapping photos and making detailed observations from the window of their Orion spacecraft.<\/p>\n

NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen captured a slew of photos of the moon\u2019s rugged terrain, sprawling impact craters and vast, dark plains.<\/p>\n

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The first photo released from the flyby, shared Tuesday morning by the White House on X, shows \u201cEarthset,\u201d a moment captured from the lunar far side as Earth dipped out of view on the opposite edge of the moon.<\/p>\n

The new image is a kind of re-creation of the iconic \u201cEarthrise\u201d photo taken during the Apollo 8 mission in 1968. The Apollo 8 photo, however, showed Earth reemerging into view, rather than disappearing, as astronauts Bill Anders, Frank Borman and Jim Lovell circumnavigated the moon.<\/p>\n

\"OnThe iconic “Earthrise” photo taken Dec. 24, 1968 during the Apollo 8 mission.William Anders \/ NASA<\/p>\n

The White House also shared a spectacular photo that the Artemis II astronauts snapped of a solar eclipse from space. The eclipse occurred Monday evening, toward the end of the hourslong lunar flyby, when the sun slipped behind the moon. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the first time, humans have glimpsed the entire far side of the moon with their own eyes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[49,48,66,306],"class_list":["post-588414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}