Artemis Moon Minute: How NASA Uses Science Missions for Lunar Exploration

Artemis Moon Minute: How NASA Uses Science Missions for Lunar Exploration

Want the latest update for NASA's Artemis campaign? Check out this update! It features how NASA is using science missions like the SPHEREx and PUNCH astrophysical missions to support lunar exploration.

The Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) is NASA’s newest space telescope that “will observe hundreds of millions of galaxies and other objects during its two-year mission, mapping the cosmos in wavelengths invisible to the human eye”. The Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) is a “constellation of four small satellites in a polar (Sun-synchronous) low Earth orbit that will make global, 3D observations of the entire inner heliosphere to learn how the Sun's corona becomes the solar wind”.

Learn more about the SPHEREx Mission:

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/spherex/

Learn more about the PUNCH Mission:

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/punch/

Credit: NASA
Duration: 1 minute, 43 seconds
Release Date: March 21, 2025

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