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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
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                                 2022 November 19   
      
                                Artemis 1 Moonshot   
                       Image Credit & Copyright: John Kraus   
      
      Explanation: When the Artemis 1 mission's Orion spacecraft makes its   
      November 21 powered flyby of the Moon, denizens of planet Earth will   
      see the Moon in a waning crescent phase. The spacecraft will approach   
      to within about 130 kilometers of the lunar surface on its way to a   
      distant retrograde orbit some 70,000 kilometers beyond the Moon. But   
      the Moon was at last quarter for the November 16 launch and near the   
      horizon in the dark early hours after midnight. It's captured here in   
      skies over Kennedy Space Center along with the SLS rocket engines and   
      solid rocket boosters lofting the uncrewed Orion to space. Ragged   
      fringes appearing along the bright edge of the sunlit lunar nearside   
      are caused as pressure waves generated by the rocket's passage change   
      the index of refraction along the camera's line of sight.   
      
                      Tomorrow's picture: ripples over Tibet   
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