Start your walk around the moonbase in the northeast, and use the compass to select your viewing position. If you move your mouse in a little circle, tracking around the compass, you can animate the image as your viewpoint moves around the moonbase.

Starting in the northeast, you see Moonbase Artemis with its external equipment laid out on the surface of the moon. Earth is full, floating above the southwestern lunar horizon, and the sun is rising behind you. You can get a peek at the the interior of the habitat through its six round windows. Green plants inside the habitat are the start of our closed-loop life support system.

No, those aren't holes in the ground. We've set up solar power arrays with their reflecting mirrors in front of the moonbase. The mirrors triple, or even quadruple, the amount of sunlight concentrated on the solar cells. They're made of simple reflective foil, which the crew has unrolled on the ground.

Two members of our crew are setting up the high-gain antenna. They'll need to turn it around to point at the earth before they can send full video home to us.

Nearby, our faithful little robot is taking pictures. Note its little brush. The robot will use that brush later to push moon dust over the exploration base to protect it from temperature extremes, radiation, and meteoroid impacts. Before they leave, the crew will erect a canopy over the base; the robot will pile the lunar soil on this canopy. This provides a protected environment beneath the canopy for external equipment, and allows later crews to get to the outside of the habitat for maintenance. The canopy also provides a dormer, so that the windows of the lunar base don't get covered with moon dust.

Move clockwise around the compass past the solar power station you will get a close-up view of the engines and fuel tanks of the Descent Stage. This rocket assembly landed the base on the moon. Now that they're on the moon, the fuel tanks become a storage depot for oxygen mined from the lunar soil. Perhaps a future crew will recycle the rocket engines; we will many uses for turbine pumps and combustion chambers as we develop industries on the moon.

Mounted to the side of the Descent Stage, you see the open-cockpit Ascent Stage that our crew will use to fly from the surface of the moon to the Lunar Transfer Vehicle. The LTV is orbiting the moon, waiting to bring our crew back to Earth at the end of the mission. If you look closely, you can see the third crewmember checking out the Ascent Stage, making sure it will be ready at a moment's notice to carry the crew to lunar orbit.

As you move around toward toward the southwest, the airlock comes into view. This T-shaped vestibule is the front door to the habitat. The hatch on the end was docked to the Lunar Transfer Vehicle during the trip out from Earth. Light glinting off the airlock window is a reflection of the mountains around Angus Bay. On the moon, our crewmembers will use the side hatch to enter and leave the lunar exploration base.

Moving around the airlock, back toward the front of the base, you can see the lightweight stairs that the crew have erected in front of the airlock. And that brings us full circle back to our starting point!