In some rare spacecraft on spacecraft action, Korea's Danuri mission captured NASA's veteran lunar orbiter using a sibling camera.
e two mission teams coordinated the orbital rendezvous. On April 7, LRO passed about 11 miles below Danuri, enabling the Korean orbiter to capture the image at a relative velocity of 7,113 miles per hour between the two spacecraft,NASA’s LRO team members steered their spacecraft around 20 degrees away from the Sun so that its radiator and the back of the orbiter could
be brightly illuminated for the photo-op. The resulting image shows a fuzzy view of the Reconnaissance
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