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NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera captured an extraordinary image of an unnamed crater bathed in first light, selected as the agency's Science Image of the Month for March 2026. The image — taken in August 2023 but released now as Artemis II prepares for an April 1 launch — showcases the workhorse orbiter that has amassed over 1.6 petabytes of data, confirmed the first lunar cave, mapped water ice deposits, and identified every landing site NASA will target for the next decade of human exploration.