Dr. Kelsey Young
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And this laser altimeter has returned enough data that we know the precise topography of lunar surface down to like a staggering resolution.
I just think that that is frankly inspiring.
Human beings are amazing and what they can create is amazing.
But Artemis is interesting because, again, you have the human, the field scientist, and they're taking pictures for a reason.
They choose to image features the way that they do because they understand our science objectives and they're making observations with their eyes.
So the pictures tell the story of their field expedition.
And so right now, our lunar science team is deep, deep, deep in the sauce of taking those verbal descriptions of which there are hours, right?
And then fitting the pictures into that overall story.
And that is how we develop a science plan and how we ran the mission.
But, you know, we're going to be releasing in the next few months, like all of these data to the public.
And I can't wait to see what the community does with it, right?
Because they, I mean...
Who knows, right?
I've already heard some ideas from the community, but once we get those data out there, I have no doubt that we're about to see some amazing science return.
I don't think I've been asked it directly like that.
I love that.
Specifically for me, this was the first time we were doing a lot of this.
And it was obviously a test flight in many ways.
It was the first crewed flight of the Orion vehicle.
It was the first time crew launched on the SLS rocket assembly.