Nasa has released the first photographs taken by the Artemis II astronauts during their fly-by of the Moon.
The first image shows an ‘Earthset’ as the astronauts glimpsed our home planet peaking out beyond a cratered lunar landscape.
The second photograph shows the spectacular solar eclipse to which the astronauts were treated as the Moon blocked out the Sun.
Nasa did not say which of the astronauts, who are on their return journey to Earth after the fly-by, took the photographs.
The Earthset photo carried echoes of the famous Earthrise photograph taken by Bill Anders aboard Apollo 8 in 1968 in the moon fly-by that preceded the historic first human landing the following year.
