Mastodawn

If I was on Artemis I'd spend the 40 minute radio blackout rigging all the clocks, logs, instrumentts etc to show that 6 hours had passed, then refuse to comment on what I'd seen on the far side.
This is probably why I'm not allowed on the Artemis.

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Steve Hersey Apr 6

@_thegeoff
I keep hearing reporters say that "no human eye has seen the far side before."

Umm, wait a minute there.

The Apollo program featured TEN (correction: NINE) missions that orbited the Moon. Do these folks seriously mean to say that in all of those lunar missions, the crewmember left in Moon orbit during the mission NEVER ONCE LOOKED OUT THE CSM WINDOW while passing over the far side?

That seems rather unlikely...

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Bill Ricker Apr 6

@n1xnx @_thegeoff

TBQF, this mission is going at a different phase of the moon (which is to say from lunar point of view different solar season) and going around _much_ higher, so *yes* they will see things Apollo didn't see.

This mission _will_ see most of the poles which have only been seen with cameras.

(Apollo landings occurred with moon around quarter phase to have a low sun providing contrast to the relief, both for pilot and to recognize waypoints when hiking.)

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Bill Ricker

@n1xnx
Unclear to me what they mean by a Solar Eclipse From the Moon (upcoming); is Earth eclipsing the sun for Artemis? They'll need eclipse glasses for 2 min of initial contact then can take those off and look at stars??

So another new science for human eyes (with natural HDR plus onboard curiosity, pattern matching)