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Perfect splashdown!!!! The Artemis trip has been successfully completed!!! Woooohoooo!!!

Perfect splashdown!!!! The Artemis trip has been successfully completed!!! Woooohoooo!!!

Stunning imagery from Artemis! I love space! Earthset captured through the Orion spacecraft window at 6:41 p.m. EDT, April 6, 2026, during the Artemis II crew’s flyby of the Moon. A muted blue Earth with bright white clouds sets behind the cratered lunar surface. The dark portion of Earth is experiencing nighttime. On Earth’s day side, swirling clouds are visible over the Australia and Oceania region. In the foreground, Ohm crater has terraced edges and a flat floor interrupted by central peaks. Central peaks form in complex craters when the lunar surface, liquefied on impact, splashes upwards during the crater’s formation.

Almost spit my water out when I saw this! Absolutely epic! Captured by the Artemis II crew during their lunar flyby on April 6, 2026, this image shows the Moon fully eclipsing the Sun. From the crew’s perspective, the Moon appears large enough to completely block the Sun, creating nearly 54 minutes of totality and extending the view far beyond what is possible from Earth.

The Artemis II crew – Mission Specialist Christina Koch (top left), Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen (bottom left), Commander Reid Wiseman (bottom right), and Pilot Victor Glover (top right) – uses eclipse viewers, identical to what NASA produced for the 2023 annular eclipse and 2024 total solar eclipse, to protect their eyes at key moments during the solar eclipse they experienced during their lunar flyby

Wow!! This shows a side of the moon you don’t see…ever. Go Artemis go!

In this fully illuminated view of the Moon, the near side (the hemisphere we see from Earth), is visible on the right. It is identifiable by the dark splotches that cover its surface. These are ancient lava flows from a time early in the Moon’s history when it was volcanically active. The large crater west of the lava flows is Orientale basin, a nearly 600-mile-wide crater that straddles the Moon’s near and far sides. Orientale’s left half is not visible from Earth, but in this image we have a full view of the crater. Everything to the left of the crater is the far side, the hemisphere we don’t get to see from Earth because the Moon rotates on its axis at the same rate that it orbits round us.

This is a screen capture from just a few minutes ago coming from the live feed from Artemis!

Thinking of You, Earth
NASA astronaut and Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman peers out of one of the Orion spacecraft’s main cabin windows on April 4, 2026, looking back at Earth, as the crew travels towards the Moon.

Congratulations to NASA, everyone who works for NASA and the crew of Artemis 2 on your successful launch! We are back baby! 🚀 🌕

Another beautiful lunar eclipse tonight!! Manage to capture this through lucky holes in the clouds! Who else saw it? Please comment!

Captured this spectacular photo of the moon WITH MY IPHONE 15 looking down the eyepiece of my telescope! Pretty incredible. Love capturing nice moon shots.