FREE RETURN / HIGH EARTH ORBIT / ART002-E-23300
Artemis II · High Earth orbit · April 2, 2026
Earth from high orbit, 70,098 km up
Taken April 2, 2026 at 12:31:07 UTC (Apr 2, 8:31 AM EDT), mission time T+00d 13:56:07, with a Nikon D5 at 310 mm. Orion was 76,476 km (47,520 mi) from Earth.
- Taken
- April 2, 2026 at 12:31:07 UTC · Apr 2, 8:31 AM EDT
- Mission time
- T+00d 13:56:07
- Camera
- Nikon D5 · 310 mm lens
- From Earth
- 76,476 km · 47,520 mi
- Below Orion
- 27.6°S 121.9°W on Earth
- Chapter
- High Earth orbit — A day looping around Earth to check out Orion: life support, navigation, manual flying.
- NASA record
- ART002-E-23300 on NASA's Gateway to Astronaut Photography ↗
ART002-E-25333
ART002-E-23568