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]
Here’s the full res shot from the NASA website:
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The photo’s metadata reveals it was taken with a Nikon D5, focal length: 22mm, aperture: f/4, and exposure time: 1/4 sec.
They should have brought a brighter lens, heh.
More:
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On a seperate note, the top Twitter comments are making my brain rot:
circles aurora
any explanation to this
It’s a shame your mother didn’t swallow…
(seemingly a bot post?)
Good morning right back at you! 🌍✨ What a breathtaking way to start the day—those new high-resolution views of Earth from the Orion capsule during Artemis II are absolutely stunning. The crew (Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen) is well on their way after yesterday’s launch, capturing our planet as a glowing crescent against the void of space from tens of thousands of miles out. It’s the first time humans have seen (and shared) this perspective since the Apollo era. Here are some of the spectacular images making the rounds from NASA’s releases and the mission:
How the hell is the window edge BEHIND the Earth?
Why is the image so grainy for? Is this ai?
Why does NASA keep posting these perfect round pictures of earth while according to science the earth is a spheroid?
(posts a picture of a Google AI search hallucination)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HE_cAXKaMAAunQ_?format=jpg
I knew Twitter was bad now, but… Wow.
Remember when the earth used to be more green than brown?
🫥Nope
Check old pictures
Nope. Definitely always been brown.
I’m pretty sure your staring at the Sahara dessert.
I’m pretty sure you are incorrect
It is, indeed, the Sahara desert. Africa is upside down, but that little tip at the bottom of the photo is the Strait of Gibraltar. That greener lit up coast on the right is the Americas… Brazil, I think?
Dammit. It’s upside down. Again!
If it makes you feel any better- it’s also mostly bots.
Isn’t that the nazi social media?
My eyes were closed
The Overview Effect (a supposed increase in wisdom from simply seeing your home planet from far away) is mostly a distraction from solving the problems of deciding who gets to own stuff in space and how do we as a society mitigate the risk of autocrats hurling extinction-level rocks at one another for their own personal short term profit.
Looks like a disc to me. Checkmate, spherists.
And discs are flat. Point, Flat Earthers.
Down left, Spain.
Above, Northwest Africa.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!?
In this time of the year?!
At this time of year?
At this time of day?
In this economy?
Entirely localized on the hemispheres of this planet?
Behind: Things that are very very very very very very very far away.
Astronauts left just in time before a wave of green light will be turning us all to stone
Hopefully, someone in Japan with a leek haircut will emerge and restore civilization /s
point to Australia, bet you caaant :D
Can’t what?
Can’t point to Australia
yawn, I’ve seen pictures like these since decades. Why did we need to send four people in a tin can for this now?
Where are all the international borders?
/s
Sadly, you can see the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic from space. Dominican Republic is the side with vegetation.
“all your stuff” is the big part of why the earth is being destroyed.
Fuck stuff, it’s where all where the people and critters are
And more importantly it’s the only planet with chocolate
…and (grow) most of my food too!
Kinda wild it looks like Gibraltar and the Sahara survived a water world incident.
What’s that light in the middle?
I think the yellow tinted light is a reflection in the capsule window, and the other more white-ish light is the sun reflecting in the ocean. The Sun has a very diffuse reflection from the light reflecting off all the waves, but also a more specular reflection in the middle. I always wondered what the ratio between those were. Now I know.
Edit: Could also be the moon reflecting, not the sun.
could be aliens, could be reflection on window through which the photo was taken. we will never know. 🤷♂️
I’m in this picture and I don’t like it
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.
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
My 2015 Sony a7s2 has “native” iso to 102400, and expanded to 409600, but it was a special full frame low light sensor and it’s only 12MP (most from back then were 20-30MP with the same sized sensor.
From Wikipedia:
For still images, the α7S II’s ISO is 100–102400 with expansion down to ISO 50 and up to ISO 409600 equivalent. For movies, the α7S II’s ISO is 100-102400 equivalent with expansion down to ISO 100 and up to ISO 409600 equivalent. For still images or movies on auto setting, the camera’s ISO is 100–12800 with selectable lower and upper limits.[2]
“Old” high-end DSLRs are aging well, digital photography has been in the diminishing returns for a while now. You’re almost surely getting better pictures out of a 10 year old flagship than a brand new mid-level camera, and the “thoroughly tested” part matters a lot in spaceflight
Still surprises me that it’s a D5 of all things, but then my main camera is only a year newer than that one. Not sure I’d use a DSLR at this point though.
boooo!
Haha, is that a futurama quote
