Wow. Just, look.

The First Photos From Artemis II’s Journey Around the Moon

On Monday, four people saw something no human ever had: the far side of the moon, with their own eyes.

NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen spent seven hours circling the moon aboard the Orion spacecraft, photographing its ancient craters and dark plains from an altitude no person had reached since Apollo.

The far side, which is permanently hidden from Earth by tidal locking, has existed until now only in robotic photographs and imagination.

The first image released is an “Earthset”: Earth itself disappearing behind the moon’s edge, photographed from the far side.

It’s the quiet inverse of the famous “Earthrise” shot from Apollo 8 in 1968. Same moment, other direction. Our entire world, going dark.

A second photograph might be even more striking. As the crew completed their flyby Monday evening, the sun passed behind the moon, and they witnessed a solar eclipse from space.

Their image shows the moon’s silhouette ringed by the sun’s corona. They are the first people to ever see that.

During the flyby, Glover described the terminator: the line between light and shadow on the lunar surface, as producing “islands of light” among deep valleys. Koch noted that young impact craters glowed unexpectedly bright against older terrain, “like pinholes in a lampshade.”

One of their targets was the Orientale basin: a 600-mile-wide crater formed 3.8 billion years ago, straddling both sides of the moon.

At their farthest point, the crew was 252,756 miles from Earth — a new record for human distance from home, surpassing Apollo 13’s unintended mark from 1970 by more than 4,100 miles.

Now on their way home, they’re scheduled to splash down in the Pacific off San Diego on Friday. The full image collection follows after that.

Images via NASA.

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Cinnamon bread. Cheez Whiz. Green olives.

These are the sole ingredients of a potluck offering that’s popular in some parts of Minnesota and North Dakota. Some people use breads with a little less flair, like pumpernickel or rye, but the cinnamon version has its die-hard fans, especially in Roseau, Minn...

“When you go to our local grocer — we only have one in town — on the Super One display is fresh baked, in-house cinnamon swirl bread with a pyramid of Cheez Whiz displayed next to it,” said Sinnamon Krings, Roseau promotions director. “To someone not from here you might wonder why but to a local it’s as common as peanut butter and jelly.”

Those who love the combination are often nostalgic about it and remember eating it as a kid after church services or funerals. In some circles, it’s called “funeral bread.”..

The company debuted Cheez Whiz in 1952, first in Britain, where Kraft marketed it as an easy way to make the sauce for Welsh rarebit.  When the product landed on U.S. supermarket shelves the next year, Kraft already had the perfect way to introduce it to shoppers — on the company-sponsored television program Kraft TV Theatre... On Sept. 8, Sasser wrote that during that week’s program, Kraft TV Theatre demonstrated a recipe that is very close to funeral bread: Melba toast spread with Cheez Whiz and topped with sliced olives. Could this be the dish’s origin?