This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew.
Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right.
Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
// That’s home. That’s us.
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Alternative references of better image quality mentioned in comments by @baguette@piefed.social:
- https://images.nasa.gov/details/art002e000192;
- https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e000192/art002e000192~orig.jpg [5568 x 3712]
ISO 51200
I didn’t even know it could go that high. 🤣
Sony A1 MKii can hit 102,400 for stills.
AFAIK anything past 32,000 is digitally expanded (which could be done with RAW post-processing).
EDIT:
See: https://www.photonstophotos.net/Charts/RN_ADU.htm#Nikon D5_14,Sony ILCE-1M2_14
The old Nikon D5, impressively, doesn’t seem to post-scale even at ISO 102400
Thank you, I was annoyed when the source link just went to a blue sky post from some rando who themselves didn’t post their source.
Down left, Spain.
Above, Northwest Africa.
On the right, South America.Top: the aurora australis.
Actually, now that I look closer, if you look even more down left, there’s also some aurora borealis!
Aurora Borealis!?
At this time of year?
At this time of day?
In this economy?
This makes me want to cry.
I try to be stoic and harden my heart to defend it from the horrors of the world and current events, but this is just so beautiful and amazing and all I ever wanted since I was a kid.
I don’t know how people can look at this and be unable to pause and just want peace. We are so small and fragile.
We as a species should be working together, not trying to kill each other at every possible moment.
It’s all I’ve ever wanted, and as I’ve aged I’ve become jaded and felt it’s just been a stupid dream. But seeing this picture reminds me of that feeling, a world without borders.
Thank you NASA.
Many of us have been having the same stupid dream…
That’s all there is. And a bunch of shortsighted rich motherfuckers are doing their best to end it.
The earth will be fine.
The plants and creatures on it? They will be battered, but recover.
Humans on the other hand… 👎
The planet is fine, the people are fucked
George Carlin
“all your stuff” is the big part of why the earth is being destroyed.
…and (grow) most of my food too!
I’m in this picture and I don’t like it
Not sure if my original comment went through, here’s a rotated version for those struggling with the orientation
Edit: Tried to line up as similar an angle as I could be bothered to on Google Maps
To think we’d willingly destroy that beauty
Looks like a disc to me. Checkmate, spherists.
Looks pretty fake to me, AI definitely made it, and the earth is definitely flat and square despite this.
/s?
Kinda wild it looks like Gibraltar and the Sahara survived a water world incident.
That’s a pretty nice…
OutlookLook! There’s no any borders in sight.
Everyone knows a real picture of Earth would have the North American centered. This is clearly fake.
Anyone know if the grain is due to radiation or just ISO?
They left the EXIF data in the file, you can see the huge ISO. Really interesting lens also.
