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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. Scared-Box8941 on

      I’m so happy I can look at pictures of the earth while we all suffer in poverty and die from no healthcare lol

    8. 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!

    9. realnymph on

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

    14. 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

    15. 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.

    16. Key-Disaster-3682 on

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

    17. ratparty5000 on

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

    19. 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

    20. 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.*

    22. TheFonz2244 on

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

    29. SkylarAV on

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

    35. 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!!!!

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