It was suggested that the large crater seen in video from Artemis 1 is Kepler, which is a 19-mile divot near the landing zone for Apollo 12.
NASA's Orion spacecraft sent new stunning video back to Earth during a close flyby of the moon during the Artemis 1 mission.While NASA didn't reveal the names of the craters in posts to social media sharing the video, Space.
com reported that journalist Philippe Henarejos believed one of the large divots seen in the video is the 19 mile wide Kepler crater.Also in view near the horizon is Gassendi, a nearly 69 mile crater.The nice crater, with bright ejectas all around is Kepler ... And the other one, much larger, seen near the lunar horizon is Gassendi . Both are visible from the Earth through a small telescope.
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