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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
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                                  2022 December 8   
      
                           Orion and the Ocean of Storms   
                           Image Credit: NASA, Artemis 1   
      
      Explanation: A camera on board the uncrewed Orion spacecraft captured   
      this view on December 5 as Orion approached its return powered flyby of   
      the Moon. Below 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, shadow   
      line between lunar night and day, runs along the left of the 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. Of course the Orion spacecraft is now headed   
      toward a December 11 splashdown in planet Earth's water-flooded Pacific   
      Ocean.   
      
                        Tomorrow's picture: pixels in space   
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