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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
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                                 2025 December 13   
      
                           Orion and the Ocean of Storms   
                           Image Credit: NASA, Artemis 1   
      
      Explanation: On December 5, 2022, a camera on board the uncrewed Orion   
      spacecraft captured this view as Orion approached its return powered   
      flyby of the Moon. Beyond one of Orion's extended solar arrays lies   
      dark, smooth, terrain along the western edge of the Oceanus   
      Procellarum. Prominent on the lunar nearside Oceanus Procellarum, the   
      Ocean of Storms, is the largest of the Moon's lava-flooded maria. The   
      lunar terminator, the shadow line between lunar night and day, runs   
      along the left of this frame. The 41 kilometer diameter crater Marius   
      is top center, with ray crater Kepler peeking in at the edge, just   
      right of the solar array wing. Kepler's bright rays extend to the north   
      and west, reaching the dark-floored Marius. By December 11, 2022 the   
      Orion spacecraft had returned to its home world. The historic Artemis 1   
      mission ended with Orion's successful splashdown in planet Earth's   
      water-flooded Pacific Ocean.   
      
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                  Tomorrow's picture: flyby Ganymede and Jupiter   
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