This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew.
Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right.
Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
// That’s home. That’s us.
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Alternative references of better image quality mentioned in comments by @baguette@piefed.social:
- https://images.nasa.gov/details/art002e000192;
- https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e000192/art002e000192~orig.jpg [5568 x 3712]
Down left, Spain.
Above, Northwest Africa.
On the right, South America.Top: the aurora australis.
Actually, now that I look closer, if you look even more down left, there’s also some aurora borealis!
top right also
Behind: Things that are very very very very very very very far away.
This makes me want to cry.
I try to be stoic and harden my heart to defend it from the horrors of the world and current events, but this is just so beautiful and amazing and all I ever wanted since I was a kid.
I don’t know how people can look at this and be unable to pause and just want peace. We are so small and fragile.
We as a species should be working together, not trying to kill each other at every possible moment.
It’s all I’ve ever wanted, and as I’ve aged I’ve become jaded and felt it’s just been a stupid dream. But seeing this picture reminds me of that feeling, a world without borders.
Thank you NASA.
Many of us have been having the same stupid dream…
…and (grow) most of my food too!
Fuck stuff, it’s where all where the people and critters are
And more importantly it’s the only planet with chocolate
That we know of
Here’s the full res shot from the NASA website:
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The photo’s metadata reveals it was taken with a Nikon D5, focal length: 22mm, aperture: f/4, and exposure time: 1/4 sec.
They should have brought a brighter lens, heh.
More:
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On a seperate note, the top Twitter comments are making my brain rot:
circles aurora
any explanation to this
It’s a shame your mother didn’t swallow…
(seemingly a bot post?)
Good morning right back at you! 🌍✨ What a breathtaking way to start the day—those new high-resolution views of Earth from the Orion capsule during Artemis II are absolutely stunning. The crew (Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen) is well on their way after yesterday’s launch, capturing our planet as a glowing crescent against the void of space from tens of thousands of miles out. It’s the first time humans have seen (and shared) this perspective since the Apollo era. Here are some of the spectacular images making the rounds from NASA’s releases and the mission:
How the hell is the window edge BEHIND the Earth?
Why is the image so grainy for? Is this ai?
Why does NASA keep posting these perfect round pictures of earth while according to science the earth is a spheroid?
(posts a picture of a Google AI search hallucination)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HE_cAXKaMAAunQ_?format=jpg
I knew Twitter was bad now, but… Wow.
Isn’t that the nazi social media?
If it makes you feel any better- it’s also mostly bots.
Dammit. It’s upside down. Again!
Remember when the earth used to be more green than brown?
🫥I’m pretty sure you’re staring at the Sahara dessert.
I’m pretty sure you are incorrect
It is, indeed, the Sahara desert. Africa is upside down, but that little tip at the bottom of the photo is the Strait of Gibraltar. That greener lit up coast on the right is the Americas… Brazil, I think?
Nope
Check old pictures
Not sure if my original comment went through, here’s a rotated version for those struggling with the orientation
Edit: Tried to line up as similar an angle as I could be bothered to on Google Maps
yeah, I can’t believe a team of professional astronauts don’t know which way up to hold a camera. I hope someone got fired for this.
/s
Wait, so that image looks kind of… flat??? 🤔
I’m just asking questions! Doing my own research!
Oh! That’s Africa!
I am an idiot, what continent is that brown land mass?
North Africa. That’s the strait of Gibraltar and Spain lower left. It’s not in the orientation that you’re used to, north is somewhere to the left.
That’s all there is. And a bunch of shortsighted rich motherfuckers are doing their best to end it.
The earth will be fine.
The plants and creatures on it? They will be battered, but recover.
Humans on the other hand… 👎
The planet is fine, the people are fucked
George Carlin
Think they emailed it down?
Where are all the international borders?
/s
Sadly, you can see the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic from space. Dominican Republic is the side with vegetation.
Turn the image upside down. The desert is Sahara.
Yeah, took me a while to parse the geography. The picture seems to be taken upside down over the south Atlantic.
Spain is visible, south America partially covered by clouds.
I like it this way. It poses an interesting challenge and new perspective.
I’m in this picture and I don’t like it
To think we’d willingly destroy that beauty
Looks pretty fake to me, AI definitely made it, and the earth is definitely flat and square despite this.
The world is flat and circular. This pic proves it.
They probably used some fancy lens to make it look circular its definitely a square.
I don’t know it looks flat enough to me?
Sorry it was more a comment on how it doesn’t look square.
It so funny to see a bunch of idiots fighting over the shape of earth when its obviously not flat.
(The image i
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s not clanker generated)
This should be sent to flat earthers every time they post…
All this theatrics just to have astronauts dump the Epstein files on the far side of the moon.
Astronauts left just in time before a wave of green light will be turning us all to stone
Edit: wait wtf you can actually see one at the top XD
Hopefully, someone in Japan with a leek haircut will emerge and restore civilization /s
Kinda wild it looks like Gibraltar and the Sahara survived a water world incident.
