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During their 10-day mission around the moon, Artemis II astronauts captured our attention with a handful of photos they shared. Now, NASA has released a massive batch of images from the mission.
NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch and Victor Glover, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen took thousands of photos during the mission, which launched April 1, reached its closest point to the moon on April 6, and returned to Earth on April 10.
“There’s a Herculean effort that goes on at the Johnson Space Center with the teams that actually have to take all these data and get them into the mission data infrastructure that allows us to process them and get them out,” Kelsey Young, a planetary scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and lunar science lead for the Artemis II mission at the agency’s Science Mission Directorate, told Scientific American last month. “The amount of data that they are now wrangling to try to get into the system is huge.”
NASA’s Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth website currently hosts 12,217 photos from the mission, which you can find by visiting their website and typing “ART002” into the “Search using NASA Photo IDs” field. They’re not yet organized or labeled, but there’s lots of lunar magnificence to enjoy.
The Artemis II lunar science team has till October to publish its preliminary reports on science and operations, plus the full Artemis II dataset, including all the mission’s moon images, Scientific American reported.
