A Sunrise for Orion, Artemis II

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The Sun returns after nearly one hour of total eclipse. Six meteoroid impacts were witnessed in the dark. April 6, 2026. The Sun breaks at the left edge of the Moon, ending nearly one hour of total solar eclipse as seen from Orion. For that entire time, the Moon was shrouded in complete darkness, no sunlight on the surface at all. The crew used that window to do something rarely possible: watch the dark side of the Moon for impact flashes. They saw six. Six meteoroids, traveling thousands of miles per hour, slamming into the lunar surface and producing brief flashes of light visible to the naked eye. At 9 p.m. ET, the crew called down to report what they'd seen. This kind of observation has been attempted from Earth, but from Orion's distance and angle, with the Moon fully in shadow, the c