NASA unexpectedly lost contact with the Orion spacecraft on Wednesday, leaving ground teams without any images for 47 minutes. Communication was lost at 1:09 am ET, and NASA teams worked to solve the problem, without determining the cause of the malfunction yet.
Before the communication was interrupted, the vehicle captured wonderful pictures of the craters scattered on the surface of the moon, at an altitude of 130 kilometers above it, as it was moving at a speed of approximately 8,210 kilometers per hour, and it is 370,149 kilometers from Earth, according to the British Daily Mail.
Orion is scheduled to remain in orbit around the moon for the next week, then return to Earth on December 1, landing in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego.
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Although captured in black and white, the new set of images show amazing detail on the cratered surface of the moon.
The images were taken on November 21 by the Artemis 1 spacecraft.
The images were taken with a camera mounted on the rover's solar array wing.
Engineers expected to lose contact with the spacecraft as it passed behind the Moon for 34 minutes, but Wednesday's loss of contact was unexpected and happened twice.
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