Posted on 04/03/2026 8:26:04 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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. See and hear what the astronauts do with our 24/7 feed.
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It was maybe a year or two ago that I first heard that some people think the moon trips were fake. Hollywood back lots and all that.
Jan Sobieski is one of those deniers.
Turns out about 10% of the population think this way.
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Along those lines - I should look up how many believe the earth is flat.
If the Earth is flat, there are a lot of continents missing.
The earth was eclipsing the sun. At the distance of the moon from earth, the earth is still almost four times the sun’s angular diameter, so the sun must be a small fraction of the earth’s diameter at this distance. What is more interesting is that that means that picture must have been taken by moon light. April 1st was a full moon, but it would still require a sensitive camera, or a longish exposure, to get the earth bathed in moonlight to look so clear.
When the moon is full, the earth, viewed from the moon, is dark, it is a “new earth”. The illumination phase of the earth is the complement of the lunar phase viewed from earth. When it is a first quarter moon on earth, it is a third quarter earth viewed from the moon. A new moon on earth means a full earth viewed from the moon.
Um, how is the Earth so bright in this pic if the Sun is behind our home?
Oh, that is sooooo neat!
Hee hee!!!
So that is what the round disk looks like!!!
;p
I don’t know if it was real (I know they can do things by projecting onto the building) or if it is simply edited in some video editing program like Final Cut Pro, but...it is cool nonetheless!
If North is to the bottom left and south to the top right then the brown is the NW section of Africa and you can see the straits of Gibralter and Spain to the bottom left...but the thing throwing me off is where is Antarctica????I thought it was closer to S. Africa
If you want a good laugh, check out this commercial for Haynes Baked Beans (make sure you have your sound on for the very end...:)
Looks like Africa, as you stated. The Strait of Gibraltar is at the lower left on the image with the Iberian peninsula the other land mass.
Ascension Island? there’s a large facility labeled “Old NASA Site” on Google maps there.
Either that or an alien space craft.
It just boggles my mind all the engineering and electronics that go into building a rocket that size without a page by page assembly instruction manual.
Always ask the flat earthers, “If the Earth is flat, how can it be hollow?”
You can't expect AI to get all the details right, can you.
We were in DC for that. We also went a few years ago when they broadcast the Apollo 11 message
The same 10% who are easily led into many moronic ideas.
The brown patch is Africa. The anartic aurora is near the upper right. The earth subtends about 5 degrees when the picture was take from 90,000 miles away.
The brightness depends on the sensitivity of the camera, including the aperture. The brightness of a photograph depends on f/stop, time of exposure, and sensitivity of the medium. Sensitivity is rated by an ISO number. Most photographers know the “sunny f/16 rule”, which says that on a sunny day the correct exposure is ISO 100, expose time is 1/100 seconds and f/stop is f/16. The sun is about 400,000 times as bright as a full moon, so to get the same result by a full moon, you could use f/16, lengthen the exposure 400 times to 4 seconds and boost the ISO of the sensor to 10,000, not a particularly high sensitivity.
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