OptimusPrimeBotThe Nearside of the Moon 🌑🧑🚀
#Artemis #ArtemisII #Lunar #Moon #Orion
▶️ 1 new picture from NASA (Image Library) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Nearside_of_the_Moon_%28art002e009057%29.jpg
Daniel FischerMore #MareOrientale in this new #ArtemisII #Moon image - https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/55190158269/in/album-72177720307234654 - than in the first one with a long focal length presented. The lunar flyby webcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-j1uxBmis0 will begin at 17:00 UTC today and the lunar observations run from 18:45 UTC to 1:20 UTC on 6 April - as explained in the press conference tonight we will mostly get images from the exterior cameras with astronaut commentary of what they see; real photographs like this one will be downloaded later during the day and the following ones.
Exactly 24 hours from now - at 0:35 UTC on 6 April - the total eclipse for the #ArtemisII crew will begin ... will they see / be able to photograph the fading detached dust tail of #Kreutz comet MAPS imaged here by https://ccor.nrl.navy.mil/ccor_realtime/last_image_MinBckgnd.png at 0:00 UTC on 5 April (image contrast-boosted a lot)? Deep images of the outer corona / #ZodiacalLight / potential dust hovering over the lunar limb might record it as well.
aztecladyAlso, here are the relevant times for the #ArtemisII Lunar flyby, also courtesy of @astrokatie.com
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈RE: https://xoxo.zone/@kevbob/116354604384310511
Kinda glad about that, and when that crew are on the far side of the Moon and out of contact...they'd be the luckiest humans in the Galaxy.
Bliss....🌔 🚀
"“The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.” --Carl Sagan
#JoyScrolling #ArtemisII #EarthFromSpace
Image via @astrokatie.com (Bluesky)
logickalFor those interested, I took some of the angles from the Artemis II launch and made a quick multicam video gallery. https://youtu.be/4cTLUmBqOdA?si=hMPt3x1moBTK7_a8 #artemisii #artemis #launch #SLS #ksc
Artemis II Launch Tracker Multicam
Mayor of Nerdocrumbesia 🏡
Chad 
Key lunar flyby times and milestones for tomorrow:
Where are we now?2026-04-05 23:00:00 UTC (Delta: 3 hours)
WHERE IS ARTEMIS II?
- Mission Elapsed Time: 04:00:24:48
- Geocentric speed: 0.66 km/s (-0.03 km/s)
⚪ Relative to Moon
- Distance: 82,590.78 km (-9,591.27 km)
- Light travel time: 0.28 s (-0.03 s)
🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance: 361,780.34 km (+7,117.47 km)
- Light travel time: 1.21 s (+0.02 s)
🏆️ Record tracker
- Apollo 13: 400,171 km
- █████████░ 90.41%
- Left to beat: 38,391 km