Artemis II Lunar Flyby (Official Broadcast)

Maybe a lunar geologist can weigh in but I'm a little confused about what they're doing right now. They're still approaching and Glover (engineer, not a geologist) is dictating many visual observations of the light side at great length over the radio to the science desk via capcom: rays, albedo, terminator, craters etc. This has been going on for an hour.

The tone is almost like no one has ever seen this before and we don't have centuries of telescope data of the light side and 16 years of LRO multispectral, high resolution data from a mapping orbit.

It feels a little bit of showmanship on NASA's part, subtext that awkward human verbal descriptions are invaluable and a good reason to send humans.

Space Weather still looks calm: https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/

They just set the record for being farther away from Earth than anyone else.

The commander just named a feature on the moon for his late wife.

They're discussing how to manage SD cards, and Houston wants them to sign in and out (by initialing in MS OneNote!) every time they change windows.

official stream provides no way to control the audio volume?