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]
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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.
author of the photo is secret agent of cartographers for social equality… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH1bZ0F3zVU
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…
OutlookAstronauts 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.
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!
Look! There’s no any borders in sight.
The image also doesn’t capture any languages or any jealousy.
Think they emailed it down?
They installed a 3rd outlook just for that picture
ISO 51200
I didn’t even know it could go that high. 🤣
Sony A1 MKii can hit 102,400 for stills.
AFAIK anything past 32,000 is digitally expanded (which could be done with RAW post-processing).
EDIT:
See: https://www.photonstophotos.net/Charts/RN_ADU.htm#Nikon D5_14,Sony ILCE-1M2_14
The old Nikon D5, impressively, doesn’t seem to post-scale even at ISO 102400
My 2015 Sony a7s2 has “native” iso to 102400, and expanded to 409600, but it was a special full frame low light sensor and it’s only 12MP (most from back then were 20-30MP with the same sized sensor.
From Wikipedia:
For still images, the α7S II’s ISO is 100–102400 with expansion down to ISO 50 and up to ISO 409600 equivalent. For movies, the α7S II’s ISO is 100-102400 equivalent with expansion down to ISO 100 and up to ISO 409600 equivalent. For still images or movies on auto setting, the camera’s ISO is 100–12800 with selectable lower and upper limits.[2]
Apparently they are using Sony going forward:
“Old” high-end DSLRs are aging well, digital photography has been in the diminishing returns for a while now. You’re almost surely getting better pictures out of a 10 year old flagship than a brand new mid-level camera, and the “thoroughly tested” part matters a lot in spaceflight
Still surprises me that it’s a D5 of all things, but then my main camera is only a year newer than that one. Not sure I’d use a DSLR at this point though.
For what it’s worth, they are switching to Sony: https://sonyaddict.com/2026/04/01/breaking-nasa-selects-sony-as-official-imaging-partner-for-artemis-lunar-program-the-first-new-moon-camera-in-over-50-years/sony-in-space/
Not sure I’d use a DSLR at this point though.
when you build your own spacecraft, feel free to use whatever you want.
Fairly well. The newest sensors do have better dynamic range, with some exceptions (like the fully stacked ones).
TBH they should probably take a medium-format Fuji with a brighter lens to space. Or an A7S like someone had above.
Thank you, I was annoyed when the source link just went to a blue sky post from some rando who themselves didn’t post their source.
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! 🌍✨ 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.
“all your stuff” is the big part of why the earth is being destroyed.
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
…and (grow) most of my food too!
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!
Aurora Borealis!?
At this time of year?
At this time of day?
In this economy?
Entirely localized on the hemispheres of this planet?
In this time of the year?!
top right also
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Behind: Things that are very very very very very very very far away.
At this time of year?
