Artemis II to reveal Mare Orientale, the Moon’s celestial bullseye, from a new vantage
Artemis II will fly high over the Moon’s far side, giving humans their first full daylight view of Mare Orientale, a massive bullseye-style impact basin ringed by three mountain ranges. While Orientale has been imaged before by robotic probes and Earthshine photographs from Apollo 17, this mission will be the first to reveal it in its entirety from a crewed spacecraft, with scientists hoping the imagery will unlock new details about its structure and history.