NASA's "Orion" (Orion) spacecraft splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean today, completing the "Artemis 1" (Artemis 1) mission that lasted about 25 days. NASA took a perfect splashdown photo .
During its re-entry, Orion experienced temperatures half as high as the Sun's surface temperature of about 5,000 degrees Celsius. In about 20 minutes, Orion slowed down from nearly 40,000 kilometers per hour to about 32 kilometers per hour due to a parachute-assisted splashdown.
The Orion spacecraft splashed down at 9:40 a.m. Pacific Standard Time (PST) on the 11th (1:40 a.m. Taiwan time on the 12th) off the coast of Baja California, Mexico.
"We at NASA have a perfect picture of a splashdown," said Melissa Jones, director of NASA's Landing and Recovery Division.
Mission engineers will spend months poring over data provided by Artemis 1. NASA expects to carry out the "Artemis II" mission in 2024. At that time, people will orbit the moon but not land on it; Vanessa Wyche, director of NASA's Johnson Space Center (Johnson Space Center), told reporters that NASA Astronauts for the Artemis 2 mission are expected to be named early next year.
