One of my favorite movie quotes ever is one I almost exclusively employ under the most ridiculous circumstances: “They should have sent a poet.” I’ve long mined Jodie Foster’s memorable line from the sci-fi drama Contact for comedic purposes. But today I want to use the way her character did, sincerely, because it best captures the absolutely stunning, awe-inspiring images Artemis II has sent back to Earth from its Moon flyby.
NASA has shared the official photos the Artemis II crew took on its record-setting mission. Its journey around the Moon on April 6 brought the crew farther from Earth than any humans have ever gone. They also got to see something nobody else ever got to witness before, “a rare in-space solar eclipse.” That provided the opportunity to turn what would have been already amazing images from this moon mission into some of the most beautiful ever captured.
This batch of Artemis II moon images is easy enough for everyone to enjoy, but they’re also providing scientists with a treasure trove of information. The crew recorded: “impact craters, ancient lava flows, and surface fractures that will help scientists study the Moon’s geologic evolution.” They also “monitored color, brightness, and texture differences across the terrain, observed an earthset and earthrise, and captured solar‑eclipse views of the Sun’s corona.” And they even saw “six meteoroid impact flashes on the darkened lunar surface.”
Not bad.
Artemis II’s astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen took the moon images. They employed what NASA calls “a fleet of cameras to take thousands of photos.” While more are expected to arrive, it’s hard to imagine them getting any better. (You can find even more of them here.)
“Our four Artemis II astronauts — Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy — took humanity on an incredible journey around the Moon and brought back images so exquisite and brimming with science, they will inspire generations to come,” said Dr. Nicky Fox, associate administrator, Science Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters in Washington, in a statement.
That’s a good quote, but you know what they really should have done? “They should have sent a poet.” And I mean that sincerely.
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