After beginning its journey to the moon after a dramatic trans-lunar injection, the four-strong crew of the Orion spacecraft sent back some spectacular images of Earth.

The four astronauts — NASA commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency mission specialist Jeremy Hansen — spent Monday’s seven-hour lunar flyby taking photos and making observations from the Orion spacecraft, which they named Integrity.

Christina Koch looked out the window of NASA's Orion spacecraft on her way to the Moon and pointed a camera at home. The result will stop you cold.

In an unusual perspective for an Earth-observing satellite, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission captured this image of the moon, Earth's only natural satellite. The Sentinel-2 mission acquired this lunar image by rolling one of its satellites sideways to view the moon instead of Earth.

Approaching the near side of the Moon. The Artemis II astronauts have surpassed the record for the distance from Earth at 1:56 ET (1756 UTC). This record was previously set during the Apollo 13 mission when the astronauts traveled 248,655 miles from Earth. The Moon continues to… pic.twitter.com/OapAGgGMex

Part of Artemis II's mission includes collecting samples of ice from the moon that will be compared to Earth’s oceans.

The mission commenced with the successful launch of NASA's SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and the Orion spacecraft.

The Artemis astronauts’ reflections echo a long described shift in perspective that occurs when humans are given the chance to view Earth from space.