Eclipsed: A View from Orion, Artemis II Parker Solar Probe piling up at the collision

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Eclipsed: A View from Orion, Artemis II Parker Solar Probe piling up at the collisionSolar eclipse, Saturn, Mars, Earthshine, and Orion. One photograph. April 6, 2026. The Moon passes directly in front of the Sun during the Artemis II flyby, and the crew captured this from Orion. The spacecraft is visible on the left foreground. The Moon's disk is backlit, its edge glowing with the Sun's corona behind it. On the left side, a subtle brightness on the lunar surface: that's Earthshine, our planet reflecting sunlight back onto the Moon.