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<p>Nasa astronauts begin journey home having collected eagerly awaited images of impact craters and ridges</p><p>Nasa’s Artemis II astronauts have described the powerful emotion they felt while soaring over the moon as they photographed impact craters, cracks and ridges and began their long journey home.</p><p>Among the eagerly awaited images captured by the crew, who worked in pairs at the Orion capsule windows, are those of the Earth rising from behind the moon, a solar eclipse and parts of the 590-mile (950km) wide Orientale impact basin that have never been observed with the naked eye.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/apr/07/artemis-astronauts-emotions-nasa-moon-mission">Continue reading...</a>
<p>Nasa astronauts begin journey home having collected eagerly awaited images of impact craters and ridges</p><p>Nasa’s Artemis II astronauts have described the powerful emotion they felt while soaring over the moon as they photographed impact craters, cracks and ridges and began their long journey home.</p><p>Among the eagerly awaited images captured by the crew, who worked in pairs at the Orion capsule windows, are those of the Earth rising from behind the moon, a solar eclipse and parts of the 590-mile (950km) wide Orientale impact basin that have never been observed with the naked eye.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/apr/07/artemis-astronauts-emotions-nasa-moon-mission">Continue reading...</a>