Another view of the #ZodiacalLight behind the #Moon, from a camera on the solar cells. And the daily #ArtemisII press conferences resume now, the first one post-flyby coming up at the bottom of the hour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YWATA3d5dU

Part of the #ZodiacalLight and #earthshine - with Mare Crisium - in yet another #ArtemisII image: https://images.nasa.gov/details/art002e009298

The #ArtemisII picture I had been waiting for - the dark Moon with a bit of #earthshine on the left in front of the #zodiacalLight going all around: https://images.nasa.gov/details/art002e009301 (this is essentially the Apollo 11 image from 1969 - https://www.facebook.com/dan.fischer.393/posts/pfbid02mf6UK3L2j5SgPiQsJk9JVYmo6XvZwDDZ23BYpXwJPDszaSpUYzuinkMyHzh9RF8Rl - again but with the Sun more centered ... and with half a century of photo tech inbetween).

And here the crappy external camera with the low data rate actually delivered: the #ZodiacalLight pyramid at the beginning of the #SolarEclipse for #ArtemisII - it stayed visible in the live feed for 10+ minutes! Contrary to the NASA commentary this was not the first time such an observation had been made by humans in the vicinity of the Moon - the Apollo 11 crew made it on 19 July 1969: https://www.facebook.com/dan.fischer.393/posts/pfbid02mf6UK3L2j5SgPiQsJk9JVYmo6XvZwDDZ23BYpXwJPDszaSpUYzuinkMyHzh9RF8Rl -> https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2024/07/25/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-25-juli-2024/#Jul26

Exactly 24 hours from now - at 0:35 UTC on 7 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 6 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.