See the first close-up photos of the moon from NASA's Artemis II mission

For the first time, humans have glimpsed the entire far side of the moon with their own eyes — and their photos are beginning to come in

For the first time, humans have glimpsed the entire far side of the moon with their own eyes — and their photos are beginning to come in.

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In what was the most highly anticipated moment of the Artemis II mission, four astronauts flew around the moon Monday, snapping photos and making detailed observations from the window of their Orion spacecraft.

NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen captured a slew of photos of the moon’s rugged terrain, sprawling impact craters and vast, dark plains.