Shortly before concluding their rendezvous with the moon, the crew was treated to a rare solar eclipse, with the dark bulk of the moon obscuring the bright disk of the sun. From Earth, the sun and the moon appear to be the same size in the skies, which accounts for the blazing solar corona that appears around the moon during an eclipse. From the Artemis II crew’s perspective, the moon was far larger than the sun, making for very little coronal flare.
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