Artemis II images boost NASA’s moon base plans
The first crewed lunar mission in more than a half-century brought back more than 800 gigabytes of data on colorful craters, flashing meteoroids, and much more
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NASA’s Artemis II mission—a slingshot around the moon earlier this year that sent four astronauts to lunar space for the first time in more than half a century—was an unequivocal success . The voyage was chiefly a technological stepping stone for future crewed forays to the lunar surface, which should culminate with the founding of a small base near the moon’s south pole. But it was also a chance to carry out novel observations of the lunar farside, a largely mysterious realm that has been rarely glimpsed by human eyes.
Although Artemis II’s Orion spacecraft carried minimal science payloads…
