A drifting SpaceX rocket is on a collision course with the moon after launching a pair of lunar landers more than a year ago.
Northern lights could be seen further south than usual with the expected arrival of three coronal mass ejections, according to NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center.
A Blue Origin rocket exploded on the launch tower in a fiery blast during a test of its engines, the company says.
NASA is already ordering landers, rovers and drones for a sprawling moon base, less than two months after the Artemis II's record-breaking lunar flyaround.
A newly discovered asteroid will make a close encounter with Earth on Monday. Calculations show it will be significantly closer than the distance between Earth and the moon.
Perseverance captured the composite image using 61 individual snapshots taken by the camera mounted at the end of its robotic arm, according to NASA.