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NASA's Artemis II images—and a phone video

Boing Boing·Rob Beschizza·about 1 month ago
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NASA's high-resolution image galleries show the successful Artemis II mission to the moon, in which four astronauts slingshotted around Earth's satellite and returned home in preparation for the first moon landing in more than 50 years . The pics include the launch , the moon , and the crew : NASA's Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Hammock Koch, and the CSA's Jeremy Hansen. In this fully illuminated view of the Moon, the near side (the hemisphere we see from Earth), is visible on the right. It is identifiable by the dark splotches that cover its surface. These are ancient lava flows from a time early in the Moon's history when it was volcanically active. The large crater west of the lava flows is Orientale basin, a nearly 600-mile-wide crater that straddles the Moon's near and far sides. Orientale's left half is not visible from Earth, but in this image we have a full view of the crater.…

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