The Artemis II crew described two small, unnamed craters on the heavily pockmarked lunar surface. Calling down to Earth, they suggested provisional names for them. Just northwest of Orientale basin, highlighted above, is a crater they would like to name Integrity after their spacecraft and this historic mission. Just northeast of the Integrity crater, on the near and far side boundary, and sometimes visible from Earth, the crew suggested an unnamed crater be designated “Carroll” in honor of Reid Weisman’s late wife, Carroll Taylor Wiseman. She passed away on May 17, 2020. After this mission is complete, the crater name proposals will be formally submitted to the International Astronomical Union (IAU), an organization that governs the naming of celestial bodies and their surface features.
NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket carrying the Orion spacecraft with NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, commander; Victor Glover, pilot; Christina Koch, mission specialist; and Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, mission specialist onboard launched on the Artemis II mission, Wednesday, April 1, 2026, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
NASA’s Artemis II Mission is taking Wiseman, Glover, Koch, and Hansen on a 10-day journey around the Moon and back aboard their Orion spacecraft.
BoredGuy_v2 on
There’s definitely cheese 🧀 on there somewhere
atape_1 on
For now. Wait until they get all the high res photos back.
pickles_and_mustard on
I propose Cratery McCraterface for the next one
charlesdexterward on
Considering how many fresh craters there are, and the fact that they even witnessed some meteors hitting the moon during the mission, are we sure that building a base on the moon is the best idea? What happens if it gets hit by a meteor?
OptimallyPicked on
Hasn’t been a crater named Carol?
Open_Detective_6998 on
Huh, Mr. “Unnamed fresh crater” must have contributed massively to science to have multiple craters named after himself
jellyjollygood on
Someone doesn’t have to imagine having a job looking at the surface of the moon going “Ooo, there’s a new crater”, “And there’s another one”. Alas, the rest of us do
LinguoBuxo on
Dayum… I hope Trump doesn’t rename ’em to something silly. After his cratering approval rates even!
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The Artemis II crew described two small, unnamed craters on the heavily pockmarked lunar surface. Calling down to Earth, they suggested provisional names for them. Just northwest of Orientale basin, highlighted above, is a crater they would like to name Integrity after their spacecraft and this historic mission. Just northeast of the Integrity crater, on the near and far side boundary, and sometimes visible from Earth, the crew suggested an unnamed crater be designated “Carroll” in honor of Reid Weisman’s late wife, Carroll Taylor Wiseman. She passed away on May 17, 2020. After this mission is complete, the crater name proposals will be formally submitted to the International Astronomical Union (IAU), an organization that governs the naming of celestial bodies and their surface features.
NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket carrying the Orion spacecraft with NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, commander; Victor Glover, pilot; Christina Koch, mission specialist; and Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, mission specialist onboard launched on the Artemis II mission, Wednesday, April 1, 2026, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
NASA’s Artemis II Mission is taking Wiseman, Glover, Koch, and Hansen on a 10-day journey around the Moon and back aboard their Orion spacecraft.
There’s definitely cheese 🧀 on there somewhere
For now. Wait until they get all the high res photos back.
I propose Cratery McCraterface for the next one
Considering how many fresh craters there are, and the fact that they even witnessed some meteors hitting the moon during the mission, are we sure that building a base on the moon is the best idea? What happens if it gets hit by a meteor?
Hasn’t been a crater named Carol?
Huh, Mr. “Unnamed fresh crater” must have contributed massively to science to have multiple craters named after himself
Someone doesn’t have to imagine having a job looking at the surface of the moon going “Ooo, there’s a new crater”, “And there’s another one”. Alas, the rest of us do
Dayum… I hope Trump doesn’t rename ’em to something silly. After his cratering approval rates even!
how long since last photo of this side was made?