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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]
ISO 51200
I didn't even know it could go that high. π€£
Thank you, I was annoyed when the source link just went to a blue sky post from some rando who themselves didnβt post their source.
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!
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...
Here's the full res shot from the NASA website:
click for full res
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:
click to expand
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! πβ¨ What a breathtaking way to start the dayβthose 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.
Isnβt that the nazi social media?
If it makes you feel any better- it's also mostly bots.
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
Thatβs 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... π
The planet is fine, the people are fucked
George Carlin
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.
Think they emailed it down?
They installed a 3rd outlook just for that picture
Everyone knows a real picture of Earth would have the North American centered. This is clearly fake.
I'm in this picture and I don't like it
to quote the old meme:
hey, i'm in a picture with all my friends!
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
Looks pretty fake to me, AI definitely made it, and the earth is definitely flat and square despite this.
All this theatrics just to have astronauts dump the Epstein files on the far side of the moon.
What is this bright thing at the center? Reflection of an interior light as it was taken through a window? Or what?
Looks like window reflection.
You can also see the window frame at the bottom left.
Kinda wild it looks like Gibraltar and the Sahara survived a water world incident.
