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Elizabeth Howell

How Artemis 2 moon astronaut Jeremy Hansen helped find a rare crater on Earth

oblique view of a moon crater. the crater is pretty round and has a deep shadow on the front edge. surrounding it is higher moon terrain and above is black sky

A dozen years ago, a future moon astronaut boldly went on his first geology expedition with a Canadian university.

Using a float plane, a canoe and their wits, Artemis 2 astronaut Jeremy Hansen and a team from Western University in Ontario explored a remote area in Saskatchewan they had only been seen before in satellite images. New peer-reviewed research now confirms their crater is among the rarest seen on Earth. 

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