Dr. Kelsey Young

They take pictures that are so incredibly valuable scientifically.

Human eyes are able to provide something on top of that, though.

They have the ability, human eyes, to see just in the literal blink of an eye to really capture color nuance.

that images you might have to, you know, really understand what's there to pull out.

And so an example of that would be, of course, Apollo 17 astronaut Jack Schmidt describing the orange soil discovery on one of his spacewalks during the mission.

And he saw this, you know, you hear it in his voice.

He's like, orange soil.

Oh, my gosh.

And he ultimately collected that sample because he saw that color nuance and took that sample back.

And it ultimately that sample was

helped us understand something about how recently volcanic activity existed on the moon which is which was a new you know scientific discovery but when you look at the pictures from his suit mounted camera that orange does not pop out so it's it's not perception it's reality and we worked with them to really hone their toolkit for how to give descriptions so that we could understand what they were seeing it's something that orbiting spacecrafts are not able to provide and

It can help the next orbiting spacecraft by saying, hey, crew observed these things in these areas.

Hey, science community, is this a value?

Want to go follow up?

We had this –

tool that members of our team developed called the Lunar Targeting Package.

It starts with a list of targets on the lunar surface, so features on the lunar surface, that was encompassing of all 360 degrees of the lunar surface.

And so we have this really long list of over 150 targets that, you know, encompasses the entire moon.

Okay, so then we're getting close to a launch window.

You know, here it is.