Artemis II crew captured, high-resolution images during their journey to the Moon . NASA
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Source - NASA https://x.com/i/status/2040059770237849635
World_famous_fckup@reddit
If you zoom in all the way…. That’s not static…. Those are other stars…. Millions of them
FantasticFinance6906@reddit
Looks pretty flat to me.
/s
Maxxalore@reddit
That comma had me concerned for a moment lol
stormdraggy@reddit
Hey wait I saw this movie before...
stahlern@reddit
The doctors did everything they could…. And she’s going to be okay.
Maduch1@reddit
What the hell is wrong with you, why would you phrase it like that? 😠
frumpydrangus@reddit
He had a massive stroke…. Of good luck
dego_frank@reddit
He’s going to be all right
stahlern@reddit
Mine is from The Office lol
Major-Weather3995@reddit
lol, I didn’t notice, but this why I’m largely blind to grammar these days — few people understand proper sentence structure (I’m no expert either).
j_man_32@reddit
😂
Xiaopang-Douk@reddit
Wait, ICE's jurisdiction trancends earth's stratosphere? *Always has been"
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discographyA@reddit
Looks how flat that looks, would make a great coffee table for god.
NoEquivalent538@reddit
It's a coaster for the coffee mug
FlyFastEatAss954@reddit
Were the crew captured by aliens?
RayBluebird73@reddit
Yeah, that comma needs to go. OP, please edit.
imaguitarhero24@reddit
I don't think it was OP's intent but it could technically work. "Crew captured" could be an adjective describing the image. Like "automated photo" vs "crew-captured photo". So in this case the photo is both high-resolution as well as having been captured by the crew.
As opposed to "captured" being used as the verb which was probably the actual intent.
VacuousWastrel@reddit
Grammatically, that would require a hyphen between "crew" and "captured"; admittedly, though, knowledge of how hyphens work seems to be rapidly dying out.
imaguitarhero24@reddit
Does it? I thought hyphens were sort of optional in those situations. But I forget 100%
Blue_Etalon@reddit
New rules about coma farming
usgapg123@reddit
Can’t edit the title unfortunately, but I completely agree.
book_nerdigan@reddit
The comma in that title is doing a lot of heavy lifting lol
AlexLuna9322@reddit
basil_imperitor@reddit
The headline, was narrated by. Christopher Walken.
Sixguns1977@reddit
In collaboration with William Shatner.
ForsakenRacism@reddit
The aurora is so cool
canadiuman@reddit
I like that you can see the atmosphere. Like we're in a bubble.
TheCaptainVegas@reddit
This is why spreading across the whole systems is important. We currently have a single point of failure for the species. Occupying other planets and moons spreads out the existential risk.
Mouthshits@reddit
Or we could take care of the blue marble we call home instead of abandoning it
Jaylow115@reddit
How does spreading out mean leaving Earth? It’s purely addition no subtraction
canadiuman@reddit
Spreading out isn't abandoning, it's just... spreading out.
I know some look to the stars for a backup, but it's be cool to permanently exist in two or more places. That way, the random humanity killing event (asteroid, volcanism, disease, etc.) doesn't get all of us.
But I agree, we should take care of home base.
Actual-Parsnip2741@reddit
the ammount of effort required to populate other worlds is orders of magnitude more difficult then just fixing our problems here on Earth.
IngsocInnerParty@reddit
It feels so fragile.
-Depressed_Potato-@reddit
It is so fragile
Express-Citron-6387@reddit
Yes.
Express-Citron-6387@reddit
It is.
thoughtsinmyheaddd@reddit
Such a cool detail
corpusjuris@reddit
Oh wow, great catch and thanks for commenting or I would have missed it! I’ve been fascinated by them my whole life after a serendipitous spotting of them way down south in Seattle (lol) as a teen. I’ve been getting alert emails from NOAA about a minor solar storm going on and didn’t think at all about how it’d impact Artemis!
SmallRedBird@reddit
Im in Alaska and on the first I saw a stunning aurora. This pic doesn't capture the awesomeness, how much it was whipping around and all the reds and whites and stuff
sogwennn@reddit
I saw them for the first time down in NY last year!! Absolutely stunning, even tho I could barely see them with the naked eye for the most part. Seeing aurora has been a bucket list item for me for years, so randomly seeing an oddly pink evening sky and finding out later it was aurora, and then running back out at night and seeing the shimmering white-ish ripples and then seeing straight up green aurora on my photos made my?? holy cow. I want to see it again tho, it's so beautiful.
SmallRedBird@reddit
The one I just saw was not only naked-eye visible, but extremely vividly naked-eye visible It was so cool. Tonight there is supposed to be another aurora
It's cool you got to see some so far south
ForsakenRacism@reddit
I live in Alaska they are pretty cool
MetastaticCarcinoma@reddit
both poles! north and south, look closely :)
Express-Citron-6387@reddit
Last paragraph in case you don't want to read the rest of Carl Sagan's "Pale Blue Dot".
There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known
corpusjuris@reddit
Thanks, now I’m crying a little at my desk. Also reminds me of my favorite snippet of prose ever written, by Robert Ardrey in “African Genesis”:
But we were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments? Or our treaties whatever they may be worth; our symphonies however seldom they may be played; our peaceful acres, however frequently they may be converted into battlefields; our dreams however rarely they may be accomplished. The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our poems, not our corpses.
VacuousWastrel@reddit
Huh. so that's where that Pratchett line comes from...
Express-Citron-6387@reddit
Thank you. I need this.
conodeuce@reddit
Thank god for the Strait of Gibraltar.
smaad@reddit
The community of flat-earthers ALL AROUND the globe denies this shot as it's AI. FLAT IS the GLOBE.
CerealATA@reddit
Not quite as iconic as this one, but it'll make do.
Forzaman93@reddit
Looks like a Microsoft flight simulator screenshot smh
UsedPart7823@reddit
…And I’ll meet you on the darkside of the moon…
Aggravating-Food5733@reddit
Deu pra ver o brilho da minha cidade natal
AdvertisingNo8441@reddit
Why do I feel sad looking at this.
botany_bae@reddit
Not flat
sjtstudios@reddit
I love that the earth is “upside down”. I’ve seen a few pages flip it to make it recognizable, but this way just totally reinforces the different perspective.
ScuffedA7IVphotog@reddit
Taken with a phone or their Nikon they have up there?
MicahBurke@reddit
Nikon Z5
haarschmuck@reddit
Assuming they use it for the absolutely insane ISO range it has.
Either way a lot of their cameras get destroyed over time due to the ionizing radiation in space. You can see broken pixels on some of their streaming cameras on the ISS.
haarschmuck@reddit
Also Orion has a perpetual livestream of the crew and capsule bandwith permitting during the crews "day".
Absolutely insane that I found the stream hidden somewhere, we can actually watch LIVE people going to the moon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3kR2KK8TEs
Terrible-Growth1652@reddit
It's upside down
iRedFive@reddit
In space, there is no up.
Insane_Inkster@reddit
Reads like tagline for Alien movie lol
mrspaznout@reddit
90's movies in general "In a world" you know the voice.
MadmanMaddox@reddit
Rest in peace Movie Trailer guy.
faberkyx@reddit
I can clearly see that's a flat circle right?
faberkyx@reddit
I can clearly see that's a flat circle right?
AlarmDozer@reddit
Yeah, the green aurora on top is the Aurora Australis and the green on the bottom is Aurora Borealis.
kermode@reddit
probably intentional, makes ya think
Terrible-Growth1652@reddit
Wokeness lives on at NASA!
TaskForceCausality@reddit
In space there is no “up”. If the ancient Polynesians made global maps instead of Europeans , Europe would be the “bottom” and Antarctica would be the “North Pole”. Our clocks would spin the other way too, but that’s OT.
Funny_Direction_7244@reddit
I thought the earth was flat.
Spicypewpew@reddit
Pretty planet of ours
XFizicist@reddit
Anyone know anything about the cameras they have aboard for these images?
Ornery_Year_9870@reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/Tucson/comments/1g6ysbb/pima_sheriff_general_debate/
https://petapixel.com/2026/02/24/artemis-ii-astronauts-will-bring-10-year-old-dslrs-with-them-to-the-moon/
cyberentomology@reddit
Why DSLR and not mirrorless MFT???
Ornery_Year_9870@reddit
Did you read the article?
XFizicist@reddit
Thanks! I’m just glad to see them use the viewfinder like pros!
cyberentomology@reddit
Someone is bound to have an iPhone. And a Samsung.
OutsideJack-1999@reddit
I’ve been on earth my whole life, and I have no idea what we’re looking at here.
cyberentomology@reddit
The big brown land mass is northwestern africa, roughly south-up. Below that is the strait of Gibraltar and the Iberian peninsula.
Animal__Mother_@reddit
Not “to the moon”, they’re going nearer to the moon.
cyberentomology@reddit
To the moon and back
flowersharkx@reddit
Geez. For a moment I thought the crew were kidnapped. That comma was brutal.
Mean-Summer1307@reddit
This is just globe earth propaganda
PPGkruzer@reddit
The scale of the land mass if off: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2023/04/Earth_30_year_comparison
verstohlen@reddit
Is that the dark side of the Earth? Must be what it looks like to cats.
pseudonymeme@reddit
so, looking at metadata from original jpg (at NASA), this was taken with nikon d5, f/4, 22mm, 1/4 sec (I'd expect some blur, maybe very good stabilization, I have very limited experience with taking pictures while in space) and very high iso (51200, which explains the noise)
the landmasses still show lights and I assume the sun is behind the planet (so it illuminates the other side), the bigger dot to the bottom right of the planet is... another planet perhaps?
so we are looking at the night on the "dark side" illuminated by the full moon; still interesting how bright it is (but the exposure specs probably explain it)
Thud@reddit
I wonder how well image stabilization systems work in zero gravity?
pseudonymeme@reddit
my guess is they work very similar to surface, but I was thinking about how easy is it to let the camera "levitate" in zero gravity without any spin and if they attached it to some stable structure
but they probably just took the picture simply from hand
n1craM@reddit
That bigger dot is Venus
UpdateInProgress@reddit
I wonder what flat earthers will say now to keep justifying their fantasy.
kofybean@reddit
Home.
00_Quant@reddit
I'm randomly curious what it would look like if they used Samsung's 100x zoom to take photos of Earth.
HDmetajoker@reddit
It’s ROUND???
Ok-Lawfulness3305@reddit
Any flat earthers seeing this?
Azims@reddit
thank god it wasn't blurry
eruditeimbecile@reddit
Faaaake! You can see stars. There's no way.... blah blah blah.
Sasquatch_Mt_Project@reddit
Yup. Flat as hell. /s
DarkSatire482@reddit
Clearly its CGI and NASA is just trying to push their Curver conspiracy. /s
abstractmodulemusic@reddit
Curver conspiracy would make a good band name
ExpressLab6564@reddit
It is clearly a flat disc are you blind man !!
/s
🤣
CommanderCorrigan@reddit
Ai
yanvail@reddit
But youtube comments said they only had low res cameras and budget hardware!
flyingcanuck@reddit
Been singing this song from years ago through the whole Artemis mission so far and now seeing the pictures, it's bringing so much joy.
https://youtu.be/at_f98qOGY0?si=zIztLdYKSEEBxlja
Aqualung812@reddit
For those that want the actual source & don't want to visit Musk's website: https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/fd02_for-pao/
IngsocInnerParty@reddit
What’s cool is you can download the photo and see the metadata. Captured on a Nikon D5.
Horatio-Leafblower@reddit
It’s interesting the metadata says the location is Southern Nevada, Area something………..
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jsmeeker@reddit
thank you
JustaFoodHole@reddit
What they using 800 ISO? lol
wiscowonder@reddit
What landmass am I looking at here? Northwest Africa/ Southwest Europe?
Hot_Net_4845@reddit
Yes. Plus a bit of Brazil
doskkyh@reddit
There appears to be quite a lot of Brazil lurking there. I'm just having trouble figuring out what is what to know exactly how far south it's showing. It could be pretty much the whole Atlantic coast.
doskkyh@reddit
Yep, there's quite a lot of Brazil and South America lurking in the image. Comparing a night time image with the "hot spots" from today's image, it's pretty much the entirety of Brazil, going as far east as Bolívia and as far south as Argentina.
MadBrown@reddit
Brazil harder to see due to clouds. The Sahara Desert is in full view.
WVAviator@reddit
North is at about 7 o'clock in this image, so rotate it almost upside down. You'll see the top of Africa, the straight of Gibraltar and the Mediterranean sea above it.
jsmeeker@reddit
Images like this are cool. Makes you think "which end is up?"
JayGerard@reddit
I think that is correct. The large landmass is north Africa and the small below to the left is Spain. The small division would be the Straights of Gibraltar leading to the Mediterranean Sea.
Crapot@reddit
Dakar right in the middle, North is Southwest though
Crapot@reddit
And you can see Brazil on the right, that’s an amazing picture, making you realize what 1930’s Aeropostale pioneers went across
Xardas_pl@reddit
Made by AI, 2 minutes Ago 🥴
DontFearTheMQ9@reddit
Yoink new background.
AlarmDozer@reddit
Neat picture. But I'm confused. Can someone identify what continent is supposed to be on the left? Also, it looks like it's night -- lamp-lit -- on the right side?
haltncatchfries@reddit
There's a lot going on with the lighting in this shot that may not be immediately obvious:
AlarmDozer@reddit
Nevermind. I think it's upside down from our usual orientation, and that's the Strait of Gibraltar with Spain further left and Africa. So, this is the Atlantic Ocean in the middle. It must be morning in South America then?
AlarmDozer@reddit
It's cool since you can also see a galaxy at the "bottom" of their window.
Crateapa@reddit
I think that's the Strait of Gibraltar connecting Spain to Morocco which would make the very top of earth, where you would expect the North Pole, South Africa.
Exciting_Will_8601@reddit
The most beautiful!
ManageThoseFootballs@reddit
That is beautiful
Purpleheart420@reddit
I agree
Vaavaan@reddit
Seems flat…
qalpi@reddit
those aurors are increidble
trubol@reddit
Cool pic. They could have bothered to North it up, though
Flyinghud@reddit
Why though? In space there is no up.
trubol@reddit
Some one just did
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1sbhcl3/earth_from_the_perspective_of_artemis_ii/
IceBoxPete@reddit
wouldn’t it be faster if they jumped to hyperspace? And then jump back really quick?
ftwin@reddit
Sweet. The qualify of the launch stream had me worried about what type of content we'd be getting from this.
NastroAzzurro@reddit
Glad they were able to decide which version of outlook to use to send this beautiful picture to Houston.
atlmagicken@reddit
Is the high resolution in the room with us?
Faaaaaaaaaaaah@reddit (OP)
Yes in source I provided
prairie-man@reddit
this post would look great over at r/flatearth
First_Eye3088@reddit
The actual clarity on these shots is absolutely insane tbh. aerospace photography tech has come so incredibly far it's genuinely mind blowing ngl.
DaeronTheDrunken@reddit
Wake up babe, new home screen wallpaper just dropped
grondfoehammer@reddit
Are the Iranians in space?
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