NASA releases more than 12,000 new photographs from its Artemis II mission, which completed a roughly 10-day crewed flight that circled the Moon and returned to Earth. The images include photos taken by the four astronauts onboard and by automated systems on the Orion spacecraft. Multiple outlets report that NASA uploads the images in a batch and that the photographs span views from the crew during the mission and imagery captured by Orion’s onboard cameras. The release follows the mission’s record-setting flyby around the Moon, according to the reporting. While individual outlets highlight selected “favorite” images, the core details are consistent: NASA provides a large photo set for public viewing, and the material covers both crew observations and spacecraft-captured footage from the Artemis II trip. NBC News, Live Science, Space.com, and The Atlantic all describe the release as thousands of newly posted images made available to the public, with their selections focusing on notable scenes from the mission.