{"id":517858,"date":"2026-04-07T15:51:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T15:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/517858\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T15:51:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T15:51:13","slug":"first-artemis-photos-from-moon-fly-by-released-by-nasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/517858\/","title":{"rendered":"First Artemis photos from Moon fly-by released by Nasa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For the astronauts, seeing a lunar eclipse as the Moon blocked out the Sun was a highlight, even on this extraordinary trip. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the photo above, the Sun&#8217;s corona can be seen around the Moon&#8217;s edge. Solar eclipses are fleetingly brief when seen from Earth, but because of Orion&#8217;s proximity to the Moon, the astronauts enjoyed nearly 54 minutes of totality, Nasa said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The bright spot to the left of the frame is Venus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Victor Glover described the eclipse as &#8220;sci-fi&#8221; and &#8220;unreal&#8221;, also describing the view of the corona of the Sun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This continues to be unreal,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The Sun has gone behind the Moon and the corona is still visible, and it&#8217;s bright and creates a halo almost around the entire moon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The Earth is so bright out there and the Moon is just hanging in front of us.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the astronauts, seeing a lunar eclipse as the Moon blocked out the Sun was a highlight, even&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-517858","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}