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NEW YORK: A video recorded during NASA's Orion return through the Earth's atmosphere provides viewers a first look of the intense conditions astronauts will endure when they return from deep space destinations on the journey to Mars.
The video was recorded through windows in Orion's crew module following its unmanned December 5 flight test, the US space agency said in a statement.
The video begins 10 minutes before Orion's splashdown in the Pacific Ocean, just as the spacecraft was beginning to experience the Earth's atmosphere.
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The footage shows the plasma created by the interaction change from white to yellow to lavender to magenta as the temperature increases.
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Orion travelled 3,600 miles above the Earth on its 4.5-hour soace flight test, "farther than any spacecraft built for humans has been in more than 40 years.
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Orion's flight test was a critical step on NASA's journey to Mars.
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