I’ll see you on the dark side of the Moon. 🌑 A portion of the far side of the Moon looms large just beyond the Orion spacecraft in this image taken on the sixth day of the #Artemis I mission. This image was captured by a camera on the tip of one of Orion’s solar arrays. The Orion spacecraft entered the lunar sphere of influence on Sunday, November 20, meaning that the Moon — not Earth — became the main gravitational force acting on the spacecraft. On Monday, November 21, Orion made its closest approach of the lunar surface, coming within 80 miles (129 km) of the lunar surface before moving into a distant retrograde orbit around the Moon. The orbit is "distant" in the sense that it’s at a high altitude from the surface of the Moon, and it’s “retrograde” because Orion will travel around the Moon opposite the direction the Moon travels around Earth. Image Description: The Moon can be seen against the darkness of space on the right side of the image. On the left side of the image, par...