Artemis II astronauts saw new colors on the Moon

The four astronauts on the Artemis II mission reported to NASA that they saw impact glows, lunar dust and new colors on the Moon, as well as Ohm Crater, during their flyby of Earth’s natural satellite on Monday.

Victor Glover, Jeremy Hansen, Reid Wiseman e Christina Koch spoke, this Tuesday, with the leader of NASA’s Scientific Mission Directorate.

Com Kelsey Youngshared memories of their time around the Moon, with the goal of helping future missions land humans on the lunar surface in 2028.

Four impact shinesat least, light phenomena that occur after the collision of meteorites with the lunar surface, moon dust lifted by electrostatic forces, and new colors were some of the discoveries of the mission, the first manned by humans in orbit around the Moon in more than 50 years, since Apollo 17, in 1972.

Also today, the astronauts spoke by radio with friends at the International Special Station, something the Apollo missions of the 1960s and 1970s could not do, the last time Humanity got this far.

Christina Koch, on Artemis II, e Jessica Meirat the Station, they met again, 370 thousand kilometers away, after having carried out, in 2019, the first ‘spacewalk’ entirely carried out by women, then around the orbiting laboratory.

With this mission, one was established and several were taken, before returning to Earth, with the landing planned for Friday, off the coast of California, having, however, left lunar influence.

On Monday, the record of 400,171 kilometers reached by Apollo 13 in 1970 was surpassed by the aforementioned North American astronauts Christina Koch, Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman and Canadian Jeremy Hansen.

The Orion capsule, from the Artemis II mission, reached the record at 12:57 pm at the NASA center (6:57 pm in Lisbon).