good god, to see Earthshine from space during an eclipse. can you imagine?

#Artemis #Artemis2

I guess we won't have to imagine for very long before we get to see photos of Earthshine taken from cislunar space.

Sometimes the future is good.

Edit: if they can figure out the right camera settings to capture it, anyway. They're saying they're having a hard time capturing what they see with their eyes. Any photo will pale in comparison to really seeing it, though.

#Artemis #Artemis2

IMPACT FLASHES????

OH MY GOD THAT ROCKS

#Artemis2 #Artemis

#MoonJoy as #Artemis2 leaves forward link loss and we get some details in the report down to the ground on what they saw during the eclipse 📈

#Artemis

I cannot deal with how insanely cool it is that the #Artemis2 crew are seeing meteor impact flahes on the surface of the Moon, a thing we presumably *anticipated* them being possibly able to do since this eclipse is a planned mission event.

I believe the kids call this "aura farming"

#Artemis #MoonJoy

It's fascinating how much of the Science desk's inquiries to the Integrity crew involves asking them for subjective evaluations of their observations

I mean, what else would they really be asking for, right?

But it's a nice reminder that for as technologically sophisticated as we are, a human observer is still a very *flexible* observing platform (as long as you ask quickly!)

#Artemis #Artemis2

@SnoopJ spellbinding. where is this image from?
@ozdreaming I edited the post to add a link. This was taken by Artemis II yesterday during their observations of a solar eclipse, the light you see on the surface of the Moon is indirect sunlight reflected from the surface of the Earth
@SnoopJ thanks! I had been checking NASA's "Journey to the Moon" gallery, and didn't see it there.
Edit: now I see the "Lunar Flyby" gallery.