What it is: A view of the moon from the Artemis II crew
Where it is: Aristarchus Plateau, on the moon's near side
When it was shared: Oct. 8, 2026
What color is the moon? Ask an Earthling, and you'll get a predictably monochromatic answer: white or gray.
But ask the four crewmembers of NASA's Artemis II mission — who spent nearly seven hours circling the moon from just 4,000 miles (6,400 kilometers) from the lunar surface this April — and you'll wonder if they're talking about the same dusty satellite we can see from Earth.
Yellow, brown, green, blue and tan features fan across vast volcanic plains and lurk at the edges of ominous craters, according to the crew's in-the-moment observations, which were shared this week in NASA's Read Entire Article
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