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So the most exciting thing
to me about Artemis II

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is just the return
to the Moon.

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We haven't been
there in 50 years.

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Human eyes are going to
see parts of the Moon

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that haven't been seen
by anyone before.

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All of that depends
on the lighting,

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which we really won't
know until launch day,

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but we can practice
with different

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lighting scenarios.

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This is a map of the
surface of the Moon,

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obviously, but it
shows what

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the Apollo astronauts
could see in sunlight

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while they were in orbit.

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The brighter parts are the
parts that they could see.

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The darker parts,
like this entire area here

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and places that are
farther north and south,

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are places that they
couldn't see in sunlight,

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either because it was
nighttime there

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or because it was
beyond the horizon

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of the astronauts.

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This whole area over here

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was not in sunlight
at the time,

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and it includes this amazing
impact feature here

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called Orientale.

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Orientale is a very
large impact feature.

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It's about 650km wide.

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It's got multiple rings.

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These are rings
that form like

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ripples in a pond
from the impact

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but course it's on
a huge scale.

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So seeing it with
human eyes

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and sort of picking out
features that maybe

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you don't even see
in robotic cameras

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is an important goal
for the mission.