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Unpublished photo of the Eastern basin of the Moon, taken by the Artemis II mission
This mission marks the first time that the entire Eastern Basin, a huge impact crater, has been seen with the naked eye.
The mission Artemis II continues to “make history”, emphasizes NASA itself.
This Sunday, the space agency published a new image of the Moon, which looks like “another” photograph of Earth’s satellite planet – but it isn’t.
NASA explains that, in this image, you can see the Eastern basin of the Moonon the right edge of the lunar disk. This mission marks the first time the entire basin was seen with the naked eye.
That is, it is the first photograph taken by humans of this area, known for having a huge impact crater, the result of a large asteroid strike billions of years ago.
This area has a visible set of concentric rings, circular structures that spread out from the point of impact. It is close to the limit between the visible side and the hidden side of the Moon.
Until this Sunday, this Eastern basin had only been photographed by robotic equipment.
The day before, Saturday, one of the astronauts present on Artemis, Victor Glover, had announced that the crew managed to capture images detailed lunar surfaceincluding the Eastern basin.
History in the making
In this new image from our II crew, you can see Orientale basin on the right edge of the lunar disk. This mission marks the first time the entire basin has been seen with human eyes.
— NASA (@NASA)
And a arrival is getting closerof course: the Moon is “definitely getting bigger” and already dominates the field of vision of the four astronauts, he commented. While the Earth is getting smaller and smaller.
This Monday, the 6th, should be the most awaited day: fly over the moon. At this time, astronauts were already can see the hidden side of the Moon – something we can never see from Earth, because of the synchronized rotation between Earth and its satellite planet.
