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The #ArtemisII picture I had been waiting for - the dark Moon with a bit of #earthshine on the left in front of the #zodiacalLight going all around: https://images.nasa.gov/details/art002e009301 (this is essentially the Apollo 11 image from 1969 - https://www.facebook.com/dan.fischer.393/posts/pfbid02mf6UK3L2j5SgPiQsJk9JVYmo6XvZwDDZ23BYpXwJPDszaSpUYzuinkMyHzh9RF8Rl - again but with the Sun more centered ... and with half a century of photo tech inbetween).

- Gib mir mal bitte mein Portable Computing Device.
- Du meinst Dein Handy?
- PORTABLE COMPUTING DEVICE!
#ArtemisII #Artemis2

Breakfast. Like an astronaut.
#nutellainspace #artemisii

I’m not crying, you’re crying #ArtemisII #CarrollCrater

I’ve made my calls to my representatives, so it’s time to share these four beautiful nerds.
More here: #ArtemisII

Truly amazing!
#artemisII

Solar Eclipse From the Far Side of the Moon
This shot from Artemis II of the Earth eclipsing the Sun is one of the most breathtaking astronomical photos I’ve ever seen. Holy shit. Captured by the A

A nice reminder that @… just shared :)
#ArtemisII

Next #ArtemisII lunar close-up picture published: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/55193137293/in/album-72177720307234654 with part of the terminator on the far side.

Die Crew von #ArtemisII hat erstmals hochauflösende Bilder der #Erde auf dem Weg zum #Mond veröffentlicht.
Nach dem Trans-Lunar-Injection-Manöver fotografierte Kommandant Reid

Artemis II crew now halfway to Moon as they take 'spectacular' image of Earth
The snap was taken aboard the Orion capsule by its commander, Reid Wiseman, as the crew head towards the Moon.

Here is earthrise after #ArtemisII has passed behind the Moon as seen from Earth: https://images.nasa.gov/details/art002e009280b

For all the critics I made of the camera direction during launch, today is a good reminder of why NASA'S PAO is the gold standard. #ArtemisII

And so the *real* images from the #ArtemisII ride behind the Moon are beginning to come in! Here is the Earth setting at 22:41 UTC yesterday: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/55192084847/in/album-72177720307234654

Nett hier, aber waren Sie schon mal hinter dem Mond?
#ArtemisII #Artemis2

Earth vanishing behind the Moon for the #ArtemisII Orion - only a super-crappy camera caught the scene live. Closest approach to the Moon and largest distance from Earth also just happened. The latter should reappear at about 23:22 UTC and communication regained: https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/04/07/die-orion-von-artemis-ii-ist-jetzt-hinter-dem-mond/ is covering events now ... and hopefully many *good* photographs arriving in the coming days.

NSF Green Bank Observatory Shares Images, Data From #ArtemisII Mission: https://public.nrao.edu/news/there-are-4-people-in-those-pixels-nsf-green-bank-observatory-shares-images-data-from-artemis-ii-mission/ - radar signals received by world’s largest fully steerable radio telescope tracked spacecraft with NASA’s communications network for historic lunar test flight.

Ticktock #ArtemisII

Yes, you can identify several (K) corona streamers in the #ArtemisII image of the end of the solar eclipse - by comparing it with a SOHO LASCO C2 image from 4 hours earlier: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10164990866429808 (the glow behind them and *everything* in https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/55193054741/ is zodiacal light, unrelated to the sizzling solar atmosphere). Meanwhile here is yet another NASA album for photographs from the flyby: https://www.nasa.gov/gallery/lunar-flyby/

The Mare Orientale is moving more and more to the center of the Moon for the #ArtemisII crew, here in the latest image https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/55191470911/in/album-72177720307234654 zoomed in on the right,

The end of the #SolarEclipse for #ArtemisII with probably some K #corona streamers becoming visible against the diffuse F corona: https://images.nasa.gov/details/art002e009299 - more processing (like with a traditional corona image from a TSE on Earth) will be required.

I just realized that they are basically flying two eggs.
#ArtemisII #Artemis2

Part of the #ZodiacalLight and #earthshine - with Mare Crisium - in yet another #ArtemisII image: https://images.nasa.gov/details/art002e009298

Another view of the #ZodiacalLight behind the #Moon, from a camera on the solar cells. And the daily #ArtemisII press conferences resume now, the first one post-flyby coming up at the bottom of the hour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YWATA3d5dU

Emm and one of her kids were in Montreal at tonight's chat. It wasn't on YouTube, but I'll bet they played this song that she wrote for Jeremy at the event. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agneZngudpc

Wife: "it's a shame that in the history books, the return to the moon is now connected with... THAT president."
Me: "I see it this way: These four humans are they luckiest ever, the get further away from him than anybody else."
#artemisii

The Earth in the #ArtemisII rearview mirror - kind of - today, really small now: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/55189687036/. All about the lunar flyby in a press conference at 22:30 UTC at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46uxUxGpjtY - 75 minutes from now. And the window view of Earth just after leaving, with geography identified: https://www.facebook.com/rherrera71/posts/pfbid02NHATBT6ag9U4MxtXhrL9S2ia6ZkhN3FFskGL5AHGeAx7oRctTDxoCF5P8zxdyoRTl

!!! #ArtemisII sur le chemin du retour!
Le Monde – EN DIRECT, Artemis-2 : les astronautes de la NASA sont désormais Š moins de 13 000 km de la Terre, suivez leur retour

EN DIRECT, Artemis-2 : les astronautes de la NASA sont désormais à moins de 13 000 km de la Terre, suivez leur retour
Les quatre astronautes doivent amerrir dans l’océan Pacifique, vendredi 10 avril, à bord de la capsule Orion. Durant ces neuf jours de voyage, ils sont devenus les humains à s’être le plus éloignés de la Terre, avec 406 771 kilomètres de distance, et ils ont survolé la face cachée de notre satellite naturel.

Exactly 24 hours from now - at 0:35 UTC on 7 April - the total eclipse for the #ArtemisII crew will begin ... will they see / be able to photograph the fading detached dust tail of #Kreutz comet MAPS imaged here by #ZodiacalLight / potential dust hovering over the lunar limb might record it as well.

In order to celebrate the successful return to Earth of the #ArtemisII, I have defrosted a chocolate muffin in the replicator, er, I mean microwave oven.
The future is here, baby!
<gif of Kermit drinking tea>

#Melodysheep, one of the best YouTube channels out there, has published a gorgeous tribute to #ArtemisII! 🚀
https://youtu.be/SGxz4LQfRpo

NASA's most import launch in decades and they are using the most choppy video codec ever. #ArtemisII

More #MareOrientale in this new #ArtemisII #Moon image - https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/55190158269/in/album-72177720307234654 - than in the first one with a long focal length presented. The lunar flyby webcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-j1uxBmis0 will begin at 17:00 UTC today and the lunar observations run from 18:45 UTC to 1:20 UTC on 7 April - as explained in the press conference tonight we will mostly get images from the exterior cameras with astronaut commentary of what they see; real photographs like this one will be downloaded later during the day and the following ones.

Raumschiff Orion also heute Nacht am Start. Nice.
#ArtemisII

The #Moon in a perfectly fitting #easteregg shape in the live stream #ArtemisII right now. Two new updates: https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/04/04/artemis-ii-flight-day-4-crew-completes-manual-piloting-demonstration/ and just in https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/04/05/artemis-ii-flight-day-5-crew-starts-day-with-suit-demo/

NASA has finally published a detailled simulation of what the #ArtemisII lunar flyby will look like from the Orion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmQ4546iIvI - happy to see that it matches the two simulations (prepared on my request, assuming an April 1st launch) I had shown on March 30th in https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/03/26/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-26-marz-2026/#Mar30 had essentially nailed it. Actual times of key events have recently been added to https://www.nasa.gov/missions/artemis/artemis-2/nasa-sets-coverage-for-artemis-ii-moon-mission/ (under Monday, April 6) - the main question now is how much of this culmination of the mission we will see ... and when. At a press conference Sunday at 22:30 UTC more information is expected.

They have landed!! #ArtemisII

And so #ArtemisII delivers ... the dark side of the Earth last night, illuminated by the full Moon, with a bright atmospheric arc indicating where the Sun is hiding and aurora in several places. While beyond Earth at 5 o'clock you see the zodiacal light and Venus and many stars. A bit noisy but something never imaged before AFAIK - the Apollo era photographic film wasn't up to this. From https://x.com/NASA/status/2040059770237849635 while https://x.com/NASA/status/2040059740848283920 shows a fraction of the Earth's dayside.

12,217 pictures taken during the #ArtemisII mission have been dumped at https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/ShowQueryResults-Lightcycle.pl?results=1777772559122361 (thumbnails) and https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/ShowQueryResults-TextTable.pl?results=177781480697921 (table), so far without listed metadata or tags. At first glance no entirely new vistas beyond the PR releases out during / just after the mission appear in this vast collection, mostly endless exposure sequences and unlucky sky images - but amateur image processors can now stack and further enhance the Artemis II haul with a vengeance ...

There is now some lunar surface detail visible in #ArtemisII photographs showing the Moon behind the Orion: from the JSC album https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/albums/72177720307234654/with/55186770575 which should also be monitored for new mission images dropping.

By popular demand here is the full-moon-lit night image of Earth from #ArtemisII in a rotated (NW now up) and zoomed-in version, now directly from https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/hello-world/ - the technical data has https://nitter.net/Erdayastronaut/status/2040105622046118282 and there is also a version with much shorter exposure at https://nitter.net/NASA/status/2040114101670523381 and a half-Earth at https://nitter.net/NASA/status/2040114160529179103 while the view with the window frame is at https://images.nasa.gov/details/art002e000191

RE: #ArtemisII Mission Update briefing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5PLvqX2q8w - in Q&A we learned that contact has been made to only two of the four CubeSats deployed so far, the German one https://mastodon.social/@DLR@social.bund.de/116329959429900989 not among them. Anyway, here is a cool timelapse of the deployment as seen in the sky: https://bsky.app/profile/s2a-systems.bsky.social/post/3mimb3zb5gs2i

The best view from the #ArtemisII mission so far came at noon UTC today when a solar-wing-mounted camera broastcast this view of Earth some 70,000 km away next to the ESM engines for a while. The Orion and the ESM are on their way back to perigee now - and around 23:45 UTC the trans-lunar injection burn is expected.

The first orbital media event with the #ArtemisII crew is happening right now, live on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3kR2KK8TEs

After a successful 5 minutes 55 seconds Translunar Injection Burn the daily #ArtemisII press conference should come at the bottom of the hour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3Pq35gm4qA

And now an #ArtemisII post-launch press conference on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrhH05U_Zds

The best view from the botched #ArtemisII NASA launch webcast: the separation of the Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage (with the Orion, not visible) from the Core Stage, seen from the Launch Vehicle Stage Adapter - scroll down on https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/04/01/artemis-ii-vor-dem-start-maps-vor-dem-perihel/ for a sequence of nine screenshots from the whole ascent.

The first (NASA) photograpg of the #ArtemisII launch published: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/55182696113/in/album-72177720331487648

Turns out the #ArtemisII reentry was visible from the #ISS . Amazing!
https://www.sen.com/video/e1cbd8ed-1363-4a

And here the crappy external camera with the low data rate actually delivered: the #ZodiacalLight pyramid at the beginning of the #SolarEclipse for #ArtemisII - it stayed visible in the live feed for 10 minutes! Contrary to the NASA commentary this was not the first time such an observation had been made by humans in the vicinity of the Moon - the Apollo 11 crew made it on 19 July 1969: https://www.facebook.com/dan.fischer.393/posts/pfbid02mf6UK3L2j5SgPiQsJk9JVYmo6XvZwDDZ23BYpXwJPDszaSpUYzuinkMyHzh9RF8Rl -> https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2024/07/25/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-25-juli-2024/#Jul26

Since this one will certainly be archived (not sure about the permanent webcast), #ArtemisII launch. The crew is already in the capsule - this had been their walk-out: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2086875691887758 and https://www.facebook.com/scott.schilke.1/posts/pfbid0261UbknbRbYWXenoR8DgC3GcDDH4RRL6FDgoW13vycnXUz4Tq5oz1yXLbzcYuPjMjl

A permanent webcast of #ArtemisII has begun at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3kR2KK8TEs and will first cover tanking and run all the way to splashdown (separate webcasts will cover special mission phases like lift-off). Also live updates will be published on the page https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/04/01/live-artemis-ii-launch-day-updates/ just set up.

Erasmus clock "next stop: Earth" ❤️ #ArtemisII

At the top of the hour the #ArtemisII L-1 Countdown Status News Conference - the final one before the planned launch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PhQJCzhCOw (new on the panel for the first time is launch weather officer Mark Burger).

At the top of the hour an #ArtemisII L-2 Countdown Status News Conference at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL3AyQ766vc - according to the timeline https://www.nasa.gov/general/nasa-releases-artemis-ii-moon-mission-launch-countdown/ the countdown should begin 15 minutes from now; check https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/artemis/ for updates.

So nice to hear Rob Navias at the #ArtemisII broadcast. Absolute legend.

At the bottom of the hour an #ArtemisII Q&A with the crew from Quarantine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii_tmJff7LQ. Followed at 18:00 UTC by an Artemis II L-3 Countdown Status News Conference at t-3 days: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQH21XCsp5U

So far NASA hasn't released any post-flight images of the #ArtemisII heat shield (except for a weird under-water view) - but here is one, kind of, I have extracted from the series https://www.facebook.com/NavalBaseSD/posts/pfbid05mJ788QWZoVSugx81FqT9aqGMSmvdCNP9P7KQfXtc6GevGQMtCkh184xgFV3N26vl of images taken by the Naval Base San Diego during a series of precision crane lifts and movements to prepare the Orion spacecraft for its final cross-country trip to Kennedy Space Center.

The #ArtemisII mission has quite an impact on ... the operation of the James Webb Space Telescope as #JWST operations plan currently assumes roughly a quarter of the usual #DeepSpaceNetwork (DSN) access will be available, which has a direct impact on the number of science visits that can be executed and the volume of data that can be downlinked."

Q&A with the #ArtemisII crew when they just arrived at the KSC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg-sDsbJp7E. And how Europe will power the journey to the Moon and back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq6hz0GFEO4 - from ESA which also made https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMt0njvmu0Y

During NASA’s #ArtemisII mission to the Moon, four astronauts will live and work inside the Orion spacecraft after launching atop the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lxDQj7CFyI - the crew will test Orion’s systems throughout their 10-day mission to ensure the spacecraft can keep astronauts safe and healthy in deep space.

"The USA needs to take over the Moon and stop all this phases nonsense. We’ll have a full Moon every night, unless werewolves become a big problem. We might even bring the Moon closer so getting there isn’t such a hassle": Donald Trump as cited in #ArtemisII

The #ArtemisII stack arrived back at the pad today, with a launch on April 1st (Europe: April 2nd) still a possibility: https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/03/20/nasas-artemis-ii-rocket-arrives-at-launch-pad-39b/ and https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2026/03/Artemis_II_rolls_again and many more roll-out pictures in https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/albums/72177720332614865/

The #ArtemisII show goes on - in 10 hours at 18:30 UTC a press conference with the crew at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_43Ei9eQVww

The saga of the zodiacal-light-behind-the-Moon from #ArtemisII in search of a fully correct #caption continues ... The #NASA text for image https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/55208682757/ published today finally does away with falsely claiming that this is the corona - good if shockingly late. But now it says: "The glow around the Moon is called zodiacal light, which describes interstellar dust that’s reflecting sunlight" - wrong again, it's interplanetary dust in our own solar system ...

Fresh off their return to Earth, the #ArtemisII astronauts will hold a news conference at 2:30 p.m. EDT Thursday, April 16, at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston to discuss their historic mission around the Moon: https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-to-host-artemis-ii-crew-postflight-news-conference/

Half an hour till a Live Q&A with the #ArtemisII crew at the Canadian Space Agency: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDOspdklOro (and if you can't wait: in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ES9WGxEMK0 they just spoke for an hour with Oprah).

Also from the #LPSC #NASA HQ Briefing: the science riding along on #ArtemisII - I think "verbal descriptions" of the Moon haven't been defined science objectives since the Apollo days.

Recap videos of #ArtemisII from NASA and LockMart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfRqrrBbT-Y and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwaLS3KLc5M. And what Gene Krantz thinks of all this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUfKtg1qbYk

The #ArtemisII crew on the John P. Murtha with their Orion - on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYY4nnfxKbU their arrival in Houston will be streamed from 20:00 UTC today!

So the #ArtemisII FRR went "go" on all counts, they hope to roll out the stack to the pad again on 19 March and be ready to launch on 1 April at 22:24 UTC - the table of possible launch dates in April https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/artemis-ii-mission-availability.pdf just had another one added for 2 April.

The NASA's #ArtemisII Flight Readiness News Conference should commence in 1/2 hour on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpMMAdqMGWA

Artemis II - Return to the Moon: #ArtemisII.

Separation of the ESM! #ArtemisII continues to deliver impressive visuals.

What a sad moment when the 24/7 #ArtemisII live stream was shut down at 2:20 UTC ...had it on almost, well, 24/7. ;-) Little consolation prize: the Artemis II Post-Splashdown News Conference in a few minutes on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir2X1-FjDxg

Going to the Moon and back apparently makes you … very happy: #ArtemisII astronauts Glover and Koch in the helicopter after landing on the USS John P. Murtha.

The #ArtemisII Crew News Conference is underway at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkyUSFYrsKM is underway - looong delay between questions and answers.

And the #ArtemisII zodiacal light images from the GoPro camera (!) are *also* 'full of stars' (and three planets) as https://bsky.app/profile/chrisbecke.bsky.social/post/3miwj4tf54s23 shows.

The next #ArtemisII Daily News Conference is coming up at the top of the hour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZFM9ywOpl0 (and later we'll have - at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkyUSFYrsKM - the first and only press conference with the crew).

Back to the #ArtemisII launch exactly one week ago - here is a most remarkable Near-Infrared high-resolution video of it: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SJ7aMoRa0wA (particularly clear because long wavelengths are less affected by seeing).

NASA just dropped a hi-res image from the beginning of the eclipse #ArtemisII experienced at https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/55197506830/ - it's dominated by a broad corona streamer bundle sitting on top of the zodiacal light pyramid. (In https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/04/09/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-9-april-2026/#Apr09 I have rotated it so that it matches the SOHO LASCO C2 view which in https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10164990866429808 is matched to the well-known eclipse end picture.) But south of the streamers sits something bright at the lunar limb that baffles me: what can be so bright - and even colorful - at this location when the Sun is already well behind the Moon? Is this astrophysics or rather selenophysics? Ideas?

In visible light - and color - the #ArtemisII launch in high resolution is also nice: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/a1uvU8Y7h10

Brazilian technology helps NASA assess health risks for astronauts on mission to the Moon: #ArtemisII mission.

The Moon-in-front-of-the-Zodiacal-Light image from #ArtemisII has even more in it than first thought: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=26714502164842036 shows how you can locate comet C/2025 R3 (PANSTARRS) in it by starhopping via Markab - the comet had about 6 mag. at the time.

On #ArtemisII ... 3:45 till splash-down.

Good news from another one of the #CubeSats sent along with #ArtemisII - Germany's #Tacheles has phoned home: https://www.tu.berlin/news/nachricht/artemis-mission-berliner-satellit-erfolgreich-im-all-ausgesetzt (in https://www.n2yo.com/satellite/?s=68539 its highly elliptical orbit),

RE: #ArtemisII to the boat.

Meanwhile in an hour on #ArtemisII press conference with details about the Orion's return.

RE: #ArtemisII solar eclipse the dark Moon was surrounded solely by zodiacal light as the 20° large disk covered the solar corona completely - but at the beginning and end of the eclipse parts of the corona and its streamers could be imaged, too, for a short time, contrast-enhanced here!