Fresh images from NASA's new ShadowCam is allowing the space agency to get a closer look at possible landing sites for its upcoming crewed Artemis missions.
was captured just after a new Moon, when our view of the satellite from Earth appears as a thin crescent in the night skies. During a new Moon, light from Earth illuminates the nightside of the Moon, a phenomenon known as earthshine.
That faint glow is what helped ShadowCam capture the above image of a small impact crater in the Moon’s equatorial region as part of an instrument sensitivity test. “It reveals the interior of Bruce crater and bright streamers that formed from soil sliding down the crater’s walls,” NASA wrote.Another crater took center stage in the image above, revealing its bumpy surface in closer detail.
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