Orientale basin is on the left edge of the lunar disk in this image. Artemis II marks the first time that humans have seen the entire basin.
Orientale is the textbook multi-ring impact basin used as a baseline to compare other impact craters on rocky worlds from Mercury to Pluto.
Credit: NASA
by Busy_Yesterday9455
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SOooooOoo COooooL
Is that the moon in Hd?
Why weren’t any of the Apollo missions able to get this shot?
Why couldn’t the Apollo people see it? Were they too close when they got there?
It’s looks…. burnt
Fake news I was told there would be cheese
Everyone viewing this post is one of the very first humans and living beings to witness this, this side of one of the most important and influential objects in our universe
It looks so beyond unnatural seeing the moon from this angle/side
Holy shit it really does kind of look like a horse
A guy named Luis who works for me thinks the earth is flat and the moon landings were faked. He’s also MAGA, a religious hypocrite, and his wife homes schools his 10 kids. Go figure.
Phenomenal