{"id":379221,"date":"2026-04-07T08:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T08:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/379221\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T08:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T08:19:08","slug":"where-is-carroll-crater-artemis-2-names-crater-after-commanders-late-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/379221\/","title":{"rendered":"Where is Carroll Crater? Artemis 2 names crater after commander’s late wife"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\t\tThe crew was overcome with emotion as they nominated the name Carroll for a crater “in a bright spot on the Moon.”\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tBy\t\t\t\t\tMark Zastrow<\/a>
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\t\t\t\t\tPublished: April 6, 2026
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tArtemis 2 crew members embrace after proposing the name of Carroll for a crater on the Moon in honor Commander Reid Wiseman’s late wife. Credit: NASA\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Moments after the crew of Artemis 2 broke the spaceflight record for the farthest humans have ever been from Earth, the crew shared an emotional moment, proposing to name a crater on the Moon after mission commander Reid Wiseman\u2019s late wife, Carroll Taylor Wiseman, who died of cancer in 2020.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Houston, Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen\u2019s voice grew thick with emotion as he spoke: \u201cA number of years ago, we started this journey in our close-knit astronaut family and we lost a loved one. And there is a feature in a really neat place on the Moon, and it is on the nearside\/farside boundary. In fact, it\u2019s just on the nearside of that boundary, and so at certain times of the Moon\u2019s transit around Earth, we will be able to see this from Earth.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd so we lost a loved one. Her name was Carroll, the spouse of Reid, the mother of Katie and Ellie. And if you want to find this one, you look at Glushko, and it\u2019s just to the northwest of that, at the same latitude as Ohm, and it\u2019s a bright spot on the Moon. And we would like to call it Carroll.\u201d<\/p>\n

This was followed by 45 seconds of silence from Mission Control. On the NASA broadcast, the crew could be seen hugging Wiseman.<\/p>\n

Then CapCom Jenny Gibbons replied: \u201cIntegrity and Carroll Crater. Loud and clear. Thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unofficial name \u2014 for now<\/p>\n

The crew also proposed to name a different crater in honor of \u201cour great spacecraft, Integrity,\u201d which Hansen went on to describe as \u201crelatively in the middle\u201d of a line drawn from Orientale \u201cstraight up to Ohm.\u201d<\/p>\n

Like all lunar features, the names will be subject to approval by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) \u2014 which can take some time. Perhaps most famously, in 1968 on Apollo 8<\/a>, astronaut Jim Lovell proposed that a mountain distinctly shaped like a pyramid be named after his wife, Marilyn. But the name \u201cMount Marilyn\u201d wasn\u2019t formally accepted by the IAU<\/a> until 2017. It remains to be seen whether Integrity and Carroll will see a quicker path to approval.<\/p>\n

While NASA hasn\u2019t yet confirmed exactly which crater is the one singled out by the crew as Carroll, we can posit a candidate based on the description radioed down by Hansen: northwest of Glushko Crater, at the same latitude as Ohm Crater, and at \u201ca bright spot on the Moon.\u201d Lunar imagery \u2014 like the mosaic below from NASA\u2019s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera \u2014 shows a crater<\/a> that matches that description at a conspicuously bright spot, at roughly 18.8\u00b0 N, 86.5\u00b0 W.<\/p>\n

\"\"The region described by Artemis 2 crew member Jeremy Hansen as the location of Carroll Crater is circled in this map. Credit: NASA\/GSFC\/Arizona State University<\/p>\n

This crater does not have a name in the 2013 edition of the 1:1 million scale lunar maps<\/a> at the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature, which is operated by the United States Geological Service under the auspices of the IAU, and represents what its website describes as \u201ca comprehensive depiction of lunar nomenclature approved by the IAU.\u201d<\/p>\n

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