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]
Astounds me every-time I see the razor thin line of defense we have from the universe.
Everyone knows a real picture of Earth would have the North American centered. This is clearly fake.
Not to mention that it isn’t flat!
And I see no God up there
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.
All this theatrics just to have astronauts dump the Epstein files on the far side of the moon.
Needs a banana for scale.
There are probably a lot of bananas in that picture
All of them. Unless someone on board took a banana with them.
Most of the bananas are obscured by either clouds or a planet.
That’s a pretty nice…
OutlookLook! There’s no any borders in sight.
The image also doesn’t capture any languages or any jealousy.
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
I can’t watch, I feel high anxiety.
Think they emailed it down?
They installed a 3rd outlook just for that picture
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
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.
Wait, so that image looks kind of… flat??? 🤔
I’m just asking questions! Doing my own research!
Oh! That’s Africa!
The Overview Effect (a supposed increase in wisdom from simply seeing your home planet from far away) is mostly a distraction from solving the problems of deciding who gets to own stuff in space and how do we as a society mitigate the risk of autocrats hurling extinction-level rocks at one another for their own personal short term profit.
Wait no, I thought about it more and this is the lamest thing I have ever seen online
Like bro it’s a distraction for as long as you look at the picture, sure. But can you not take 10 seconds to admire the beauty of the world?
Huh?
Ok but cool rock where I live though
The part with oxygen is very thin lol
Looks pretty fake to me, AI definitely made it, and the earth is definitely flat and square despite this.
looks pretty flat though,must be real
and now i am confused, can you two just make up your mind and tell me what to think? damn it…
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.
/s?
“/s?”.replace(“?”,“”)
the fuck did you call me
“/s”
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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This should be sent to flat earthers every time they post…
My eyes were closed
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! 🌍✨ 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.
Dammit. It’s upside down. Again!
Isn’t that the nazi social media?
If it makes you feel any better- it’s also mostly bots.
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
Nope. Definitely always been brown.
