According to the space agency, the astronauts took turns photographing this region of the moon during the seven-hour approach, working in pairs. At its closest point from the surface, about 6,550 km, the Moon appeared to the naked eye as a ball held 40 centimeters from its face. They owed the sharpness of their photos to the professional photographic equipment they had on board.
After completing its flyby, Orion began a four-day journey back to Earth. If all goes according to plan, the capsule will enter the atmosphere on April 10 and dissipate into the Pacific Ocean.
This story originally appeared on WIRED in Spanish and was translated from Spanish.