Artemis 2 science
Among the science data released from Artemis 2 are astronaut annotations of images, in this case highlighting color variations on the moon. Credit: NASA

ANTALYA, Turkey — Six months after its Artemis 2 mission flew around the moon, NASA has released the full science data collected from the flight, “passing the baton” of the mission to the science community.

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Jeff Foust writes about space policy, commercial space, and related topics for SpaceNews. He earned a Ph.D. in planetary sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor’s degree with honors in geophysics and planetary science...