Observe Like Artemis Challenge
Observe Like Artemis Challenge
NASA looks at Earth every day from satellites and, most recently, from the moon! If you followed the Artemis II moon flyby mission, you heard the astronauts not just talk about their moon observations but also describe what Earth means to them.
Join the GLOBE Program's Observe Like Artemis Challenge and show us what Earth means to you.
Dates: 22 April 2026 to 22 May 2026
How to Participate
Take GLOBE observations of your favorite features of Earth—whether it’s a cloud, a tree, a local waterway, or soil from a nearby forest—and share them with the community by using the tag #ObserveLikeArtemis.
In May, we’ll share the number of observations submitted for each sphere.
New to GLOBE? Join citizen scientists across 127 countries and share your observations today. Click here to learn more and get started on the GLOBE Observer app.
Hear From NASA’s Artemis II Team
Dr. Padi Boyd, deputy project scientist of the first Artemis Lunar Surface Science team at NASA recorded a special audio message for the GLOBE community, reflecting on Artemis and how astronauts observe Earth from space—complemented by satellites, instruments, and surface observations from GLOBE members.
We also had the opportunity to meet with members of NASA’s Artemis II Lunar Science team during the May GLOBE Observer Connect, where NASA geologists Amber Turner and Megan Borel shared their experiences training the astronauts to take scientific observations of the moon.
Observe Like Artemis Challenge Results
Together, the GLOBE community submitted over 16,000 observations during this challenge! Excluding observations collected by weather stations,* GLOBE users shared a total of 284 pedosphere observations, 918 hydrosphere observations, 3,900 biosphere observations, and 11,642 atmosphere observations!
Read the breakdown of the top observation counts from each sphere.