NASA has released spectacular images from the Artemis II mission, including rare face-obscured footage and a solar eclipse seen from near Earth’s natural satellite.
“You can see the surface of the moon… we just entered sci-fi.”
This is how NASA described the excitement of the moment when the crew of the Artemis II mission transmitted the first spectacular images captured during the historic flyby of the hidden side of the Moon, an area that no human crew has been able to observe in its entirety until now.
“The images captured by our NASA Artemis II crew blew us away, turning science fiction into science reality. From the far side of the Moon to a solar eclipse seen from the Moon, the views are absolutely stunninge”, transmitted NASA.
Astronauts of the Artemis II mission caught a spectacular image of a phenomenon called on Tuesday, April 7 “sunset of the Earth” – the moment when our planet descends below the Moon’s horizon – during the long journey home.
The four astronauts of the Artemis 2 mission will not go to the moon, but their flight was still a first, because never in any of the Apollo lunar missions (1968-1972) were female astronauts, black astronauts or non-American astronauts on board.
“It’s a historic day”Apollo 8 and Apollo 13 pioneer Jim Lovell told them Monday morning in a posthumous message recorded months before his death in 2025.
NASA estimates that astronauts, the first to leave Earth’s orbit since 1972, will be able to see about 20 percent of the surface of the far side of the Moon, a region not visible from Earth.
