NASA just dumped more than 800GB of Artemis II data onto the open internet, and most of it is stuff you haven't seen yet.
This week the agency published the trove on its Artemis II: Sights and Sounds of Science site. The release includes more than 11,000 photos and videos, over 8.5 hours of audio, and images the crew annotated themselves, like one marking where they spotted impact flashes on the dark side of the Moon. One clip captures the crew radioing Houston in real time to report those flashes. It is the rawest look yet at what actually happens inside a crewed lunar mission, beyond the mission-control highlight reel.
Most space agencies dole out spaceflight footage in tightly produced clips built for press conferences, not raw research material. Dumping the full archive flips that script, letting outside scientists, amateur astronomers, and anyone with a spare hard drive dig through exactly what the crew saw and said, flashes and all, rather than whatever highlight reel public affairs decided to cut.
Call it transparency, or call it an unusually generous press kit - either way, 800GB of raw footage beats another tightly cut two-minute recap.