The first images of a lunar eclipse from the Artemis II crew seem too good to be true

The Artemis II astronauts have You’ve already captured some amazing scenes Earth and moon during their journey. We can now add a new visual element to that list: Total solar eclipse As seen from deep space. It almost seems also excellent; The moon has clear but uneven edges, while bright stars dot the surrounding area.

The four-person crew witnessed the extralunar eclipse, creating a completely different visual experience than we normally see on Earth. As CNN noted and American Scientific. In addition to experiencing a longer total eclipse from space — lasting about an hour instead of just a few minutes here on Earth — the Artemis II crew got a glimpse of the sun’s corona gently peeking out from behind the moon without interference from Earth’s atmosphere.

“It’s indescribable. No matter how long we look at this, our brains aren’t processing this image in front of us,” Commander Reed Wiseman. He told NASA mission control During Monday’s eclipse. “It’s so amazing and surreal… There are no adjectives, I’ll need to come up with some new ones, and absolutely no words to describe what we’re looking at out this window.”