The Moon’s Great Scar

FD06_fd6 Lunar Flyby Wiseman

art002e010232 (April 6, 2026) – During the lunar flyby observation period, the Artemis II crew captures a detailed image of the Orientale basin, a 600-mile-wide impact crater marked by a dark patch of ancient lava that erupted through the Moon’s crust billions of years ago.

Photographer NASA
Album Artemis_II