NASA releases 12,217 new Artemis images on malfunctioning website
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Updated · Defector · May 4
NASA releases 12,217 new Artemis images on malfunctioning website
14 articles · Updated · Defector · May 4
The weekend upload includes hundreds of black frames and appears unsorted and largely unsearchable on NASA's Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth site.
The raw photos add to previously shared curated selections, showing Moon and Earth views from Orion and more candid shots that reveal spacecraft windows and astronaut reflections.
Earlier reports identified the images as from the Artemis II crewed lunar flyby, a milestone mission that sent humans near the Moon for the first time since the 1970s.
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