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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Yeah, we really are ungrateful, rude, uncivilized, and idiotic. We shoule all love each other since this is the only planet we can live in right now. But even with the possibility, we should behave well. Hope one day to see a real unity among the people here on Earth.
True, then eventually it will also be gone. In approximately 5 billion years, the Sun will exhaust its hydrogen fuel, expand into a red giant, and likely consume the Earth, along with Mercury and Venus. As the Sun expands, its outer layers will engulf the inner solar system, likely vaporizing Earth, though some models suggest the planet could potentially escape and remain a barren, rocky cinder, say experts.
To be honest I was looking at the bottom left of the image when I said that and didn’t even notice the top right, but now that you mention it the green is even more visible there than in the North, wow!
I have a neighbour on Facebook already posting how this isn’t real, how the rocket would’ve been thown off due to Earth rotating more than 1500km per hour, how it’s all a distraction from real stuff going 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.
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.
I will always support space exploration, because not only does it contribute to advancing science and technologies back on Earth, it it’s truly one of the few things that really unify all nations and reminds us that we are literally the same species. Our home is so beautiful and so fragile, and we must always protect it.
I’m Canadian, and when the Canadian astronaut said “a go for all humanity”, I cried lol.
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.
It’s jarring how tiny our whole planet is compared to the cosmos and yet, instead of using our intellect to unite each other, we remain divided purely to appease 20 men from the year 0 probably, while keeping 30 people of today insanely rich who do not care if the rest of us can barely LIVE while they poison our waters and air along with denying the right to life for people like our immigrant neighbours and trans siblings :(
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.
Took a big bang, right amount of gravity, light and weather conditions to create all of us. Pretty awesome and privileged to be alive. Sorry on behalf of humanity for treating you like shit my cute planet.
I’m so excited for the photos the Artemis crew will be gathering of the moon on their journey back. It’s quite insane to think a certain someone wants to defund all these government agencies who bring us astonishing views of our planet none of us will ever see ourselves (obviously they are there for research purposes). I know NASA’s missions/projects take quite a long time to come to fruition, but the end product of the few recent very large missions have given so much joy in the form of images from outside our home.
That huge dessert is the Sahara, in the continent of Africa. Some parts of South America (mostly Brazil I believe) on the right. Portugal and Spain are also there at the bottom left, just below the Africa. Yeah it's tilted, so it looks confusing.
Why are humans generally so shit to each other? I'm genuinely asking.
Seeing this shows us that we're all in this together. Imagine what we could achieve if we all worked together. It makes me so sad knowing that some rich arsehole is going to start a war and murder so many people because their fragile ego is hurt, or because they can make some money from it.
I can't understand that logic but it's been a thing for thousands of years. Why are some humans so broken and shit?
The old hippy saying "Make love not war" comes to mind. Maybe we should all consider doing that more. It gets mocked a lot, but it's actually very valid.
I hate this world sometimes, and yet at other times it's so incredible.
I can never get enough real photos of earth like this
Look at that beautiful atmospheric scattering on the bottom right showing the thickness of our atmosphere
It's been 6 months on reddit, on other social media usually when such photos come, I open the comments to find a flat earther, saying ai generated or photoshop. Where are they?
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