NASA just dropped over 12,000 photos from the Artemis II mission, and I checked all of them so you don't have to! In this video, I want to show you the absolute highlights from all of these images, explain what we're looking at, and why I think each of is great. Enjoy! You can buy me a coffee if you enjoyed this and want to support these videos. You don't have to though, no pressure. https://www.buymeacoffee.com/chrispattison LINKS: ALL IMAGES: https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/mrf.pl?scope=both&MRFList=ART002 (Note 9/5/26: they seem to have removed some of the images, and now around 11,300 are at this link, but they have added a lot more info about each image too) A Few Of My Favourites: https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/photo.pl?mission=ART002&roll=E&frame=14277 https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/photo.pl?mission=ART002&roll=E&frame=15236 https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/photo.pl?mission=ART002&roll=E&frame=29779 https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/photo.pl?mission=ART002&roll=E&frame=29123 https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/photo.pl?mission=ART002&roll=E&frame=12277 https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/photo.pl?mission=ART002&roll=E&frame=25460 https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/photo.pl?mission=ART002&roll=E&frame=19664 Hey team! If there is some other cool topic in physics you think we should learn about together, leave a comment down below! Until next time, stay safe. SHOP FOR MERCH: https://chris-pattison-shop.fourthwall.com/en-gbp/collections/all SPACE ANIMAL STICKERS & MORE: https://www.redbubble.com/people/CosmoChris/shop Please consider subscribing if you enjoyed the video, and you can also find me on BlueSky, Twitter and Instagram: https://bsky.app/profile/cosmochris.bsky.social https://twitter.com/chrisdpattison https://www.instagram.com/chrispattison22/ Chapters: 00:00 - Intro 00:56 - What was Released? 03:03 - The Very Best highlights 04:56 - The Crew 06:00 - Earth Highlights 07:56 - Earth and Moon 08:54 - Moon Highlights 13:06 - Outro
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The fools that keep demanding “actual solid evidence” from NASA about the mission will ignore all of these as alway.
...I can't imagine the wonderful and terrible mix of emotions Hank Green is feeling about this. He just made this incredible, chronological archive of the photos and sound we had up until now 😂
1 min ago? Mythical refresh pull! I can probably speak for most of us that I would literally do anything to be able to go to outer space. I'm obsessed with it.
man.. its gotta be something to take a selfie with the earth in the window behind you, knowing you just took a picture of both yourself and the rest of humanity.
05:44 My favorite. This is now my wallpaper.
My favourite photo, and one that I really hoped would be captured is at 4:48 - the eclipse with Venus on the left and Saturn and Mars on the right! The earlier photos all had planets on one side or the other but not both. This is an amazing way to view the solar system!
Anyone that’s a science denier I cannot wait till they start building a base on the moon the sceptics and flat earthers will have an aneurysm
What's awesome about the photos of the crew smiling with the crescent Earth behind them is that the crescent Earth looks like a smile next to their smiles. Love that.
In the photo at 4:00 the circular pattern is caused by the long exposure and the motion of the spacecraft. We can't tell what the centre of the image is without knowing the direction of the camera and when during the flight it was taken. Photos taken on Earth that exhibit a similar effect, have Polaris at the centre due to that star being aligned with the Earth's axis of rotation.
Can you re-provide the list? The link to the 12,000 images is broken, unfortunately.
Wow just wow! 😃
I would have loved to see more video from them. Especially going into the dark side of the moon
It took them a long time to doctor every photo, they could have released them the same day they got them.
The craters I find the most interesting are the ones that are in long rows, streaked across the surface laterally. They were clearly all carved into the Moon all at the same time but it's difficult to imagine if they were made by individual meteors that hit at an angle and rolled or if it was a cluster of meteors crashing in a group. Or maybe the meteor responsible crashed in a different location and those rows of craters were made by Moon rocks thrown out of a single large impact crater some distance away. Those rows of craters tell a story about how the impacts happened and makes us wonder what it must've looked like when it happened and if we might be able to find the rocks that did it. Another possibility is that they were made by a "rock pile" type asteroid that broke apart when passing too close to the Moon, Shoemaker-Levy 9 style. (the comet that broke apart into a long line of pieces before crashing into Jupiter back in '94')
Damn there are so many stupid people in the comments. Artemis was not faking, y’all need therapy. Something is off.
those images are so Fake!! Just look at the ridiculous size difference of the Earth and the Moon, the Earth is Approximately 4x bigger than the Moon yet it looks smaller than the Moon!
thanks again!!
At 5:30 all 4 astronauts posing against background the window outside with a crescent earth reminds them that how far really is from our home earth! How awesome and not only that we all living together that earth too, I was there too, doing what I chores what striving for on earth and over 9 billion population humanity all of life's on precious spaceship planet earth. 🌎🌍
The starfield :54 is absolutely breathtaking!
Photo links not working for me.