Artemis II crew spots meteor flashes on Moon
NASA's Artemis II astronauts saw five faint flashes on the Moon, which they marked and photographed from their Orion spacecraft about 46,000 miles out. Each flash was a meteorite hitting the lunar surface. The crew's full set of photos, notes, and audio is now public, so anyone can examine what they found during their roundtrip to the Moon earlier this April.
- Five impact flashes marked by astronauts
- Flashes caused by meteorites hitting the Moon
- Artemis II flew 46,000 miles from lunar surface
- Crew's science data released for public study
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