Artemis II astronauts saw the flashes of 5 meteor impacts on the moon

The astronauts who swung around the moon aboard NASA's Orion capsule spotted five tiny sparks from space rocks slamming into the lunar surface, likely the faintest impact flashes humans have ever seen. The Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman caught the first one during the mission just six months ago. "I just saw a flash, 100 percent," he called out, placing it at about the 7 or 8 o'clock position on the moon. Moments later, he and crewmate Jeremy Hansen both saw another. Hansen described a "pinprick" of light on the lower third of the moon."It's just like a bloop," Hansen said. Those sightings stunned the mission control room back in Houston, literally causing Kelsey Young's jaw to drop. Young, the mission's lunar science operations lead, admitted she hadn't expected the crew to see any micrometeorites at all.