“The only illumination source on the Moon will be Earthshine, which is a different spectrum,” Deutsch said in a presentation last month at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. “How does that affect the perception of color and tone?”
The crew members summarized their observations in periodic updates radioed down to Mission Control on Monday. They also recorded more detailed verbal descriptions onboard the spacecraft, and were tasked with making drawings and annotations to go along with their photographs. This data will come back to Earth when Orion returns Friday.
“We tell the crew that their verbal descriptions are actually going to be the monumental scientific dataset from this
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