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    “Hello, World”: NASA releases new high-res images of our home planet from Artemis ll

    https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/hello-world/

    NASA astronaut and Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman took this picture of Earth from the Orion spacecraft’s window after completing the translunar injection burn. There are two auroras (top right and bottom left) and zodiacal light (bottom right) is visible as the Earth eclipses the Sun.

    This and another photo of Earth are the first downlinked images from the Artemis II astronauts.

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    6. oiseaua20 on

      Amazing!! If this is what we’re getting on day 2 of the Artemis II mission, I can’t wait to see the high-res shots when they actually swing around the far side of the Moon on Monday!

    7. realnymph on

      is that brown speck of dry land supposed to look like such a brown speck of dry land 🙁

    12. Glad_Pea_4871 on

      we need to worship this beautiful jewel that we live on instead of fight each other for fucking oil on it

    13. Eborys on

      Very cool. Was confused with the geography at first cause the world is rotated differently from what we are used to, but to the lower left you can see Spain and the rest is Northern Africa. Great photo.

    14. Key-Disaster-3682 on

      So strange to see it from such a ‘casual’ perspective, makes it seem like an iPhone photo, just breathtaking

    15. ratparty5000 on

      She’s so beautiful and she should be treated beautifully 😭😭😭😭

    17. Lewd_Knight on

      I was struggling to figure out which part of the earth the photo was looking at until I turned the photo upside down

    18. aurora_boredalis on

      My dad and I were just talking about the images of our planet by astronauts Harrison Schmitt (The Blue Marble, taken during Apollo 17) and William Anders (Earthrise, taken during Apollo 8) last night. Those photos always make me so emotional lol, they make me feel sense of wonder I can’t quite find the words to describe. What a gorgeous gift given to us by Reid Wiseman. 🥹

      I’m always reminded of my favourite Sagan quote about our Pale Blue Dot…

      >*Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,” every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there–on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.*

    20. TheFonz2244 on

      For those mentioning the lack of green, that is the Sahara Desert with Africa upside down from how we usually see it.

    25. SkylarAV on

      Damn, we haven’t got a good look at ourselves in decades. We need to get our shit together

    32. Ecomonist on

      The South is UP people from the middle ages were correct, and now I don’t know what to do with this information!!!!

    33. SweetHomeArrakis on

      You can see the atmosphere so clearly! It’s scary how thin it actually is.

    35. DitzyPhilosopher420 on

      🙁 it’s so much less green and vibrant than when we were growing up, this is making me extra sad.

    36. rjl381 on

      Shout out to Cristina Koch for being the first woman to EVER leave Low Earth Orbit!!!!!

    38. Shakethecrimestick on

      I highly recommend watching the documentary “For All Mankind”, especially the new 4k version. You get to hear the perspective of various Apollo astronauts and some of the spiritual feeling they felt at times. Also, the footage is probably a collection of the most “holy shit” footage.

    40. Godbleththismeth on

      Yall turn your phone upside down, that’s Africa and (edit) South America on the other side

    41. Phill_Cyberman on

      The moon is 10 earth circumferences from earth.

      That’s actually really far away for a moon.

      All the other planets in our solar system could fit between the earth and the moon (not counting Saturn’s rings)

    44. TheUnderCrab on

      Spent way too long trying to figure out what landmass we were looking at. The orientation is reversed from the normal globe projections and the top is the South Pole. We’re looking at Iberia and Northern Africa around the straight of Gibraltar and Mediterranean Sea. 

    48. thecobaltwitch on

      And for those born after a certain era, this used to have green on it! (Just a joke I’m aware of seasons)

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