The impact of Artemis 2 continues to ripple throughout our global society. Due to bandwidth reasons, the crew were only able to send back big hitters but the truth is they took hundreds, if not millions, a photos whenever the opportunity granted themselves. People have already taken advantage and made their own time-lapses, such as the one below. Dave McKeegan did a whole video on it.
This is amazing.
We’re literally seeing what the astronauts witnessed.
Hank Green even set up a website a websites hosts varies media taken over the course the mission in chronological order, including the GIF above. The site is shown in timeline and has options for varies options to narrow down your search.
Flat Earthers and Moon Landing deniers alike (though, they’re pretty much in the camp these days) asked and demanded for more photos without realizing that what we saw at the beginning was just the highlights. This was repeatedly made clear. What I’m sure they didn’t expect was all of this. I know I didn’t, and I love it. It’s just so cool.
Astronomy is one of those scientific fields where amateurs play a huge contributing role. A lot of early discoveries made before the Cold War were thanks in large part to these people. That’ll continue to be true no matter what happens.