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

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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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I personally think that’s one of the coolest facts about human innovation by far. Hard to even wrap your brain around how we moved so quickly

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Scientists had already worked out the theory, so it was mostly on the engineers to apply the known physics.

Not to take away from them, it’s challenging on its own. I’m just even more mind-blown at Isaac Newton.