Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth

damnitbuilds

Anyone find the full res version of this ? Nasa images page is useless. Government work.

sandworm101

Come on flat-earthers. I know you are out there. Lets hear your crazy rant about how this is a fisheye lens on a weather balloon or a webcam atop the eiffel tower. Why can't we see the poles? And is that an ice wall on poking up in the lower-right quadrant of the disk?

MiscIdeaMaker99

What a gorgeous sight to behold!

Sharlin

I was confused when I first saw this photo, as I don't think I've ever before seen a nightside, moonlit Earth, exposed so that it looks like the dayside at a first glance. I wonder how many casual viewers actually realize it's the night side. A nice demonstration of how moonlight is pretty much exactly like sunlight, just much much dimmer. In particular it has the same color, even though moonlight is often thought of as bluish and sunlight as yellowish!

longislandguido

> The image, titled Hello, World A new hello.jpg?

hmaxwell

wait why is it round?

delichon

I object to being included in this image without a model release and demand that pixel be removed.

rvnx

How come the pictures have such bad quality ? Is it a bandwidth issue ? Or there are really constraints that are not so obvious ? Because fundamentally it is a large object illuminated by sunlight.

yieldcrv

I love how all the public critique about not being able to see stars in nasa photos has resulted in better dynamic range photography and composition just the lowest hanging fruit that had been a second class citizen to the marvel of having an extraterrestrial angle to begin with

seydor

whats different between this and all the other pics of earth from various space devices

consumer451

Man, this is truly awesome. I wonder if NASA's Don Pettit, u/astro_pettit [0] consults on all missions going forward. He really should. He is "our people," as far as hacking astrophotography from space. [1] [0] https://old.reddit.com/user/astro_pettit [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42701645

evilelectron

Hello again dot. Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. — Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994

hannesfur

Looking at the EXIF (with exiftool) for the image uploaded by NASA ( https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/art002e00019... ), apparently this was taken by a Nikon D5 with an AF-S Zoom-Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8G ED and developed with Lightroom. It also seems like very little was done in Lightroom. Amazing... I dumped the whole EXIF here: https://gist.github.com/umgefahren/a6f555e6588a98adb74eed79d...

ge96

Why 'spectacular' the quotes I'm sad not alive at a time like Cowboy Bebop oh well, this is a great pic, overview effect

sensanaty

It really is crazy when you think about it, we're capable of taking a picture of the planet we live on from outer space. We take it for granted, that we know what it all looks like. I often find myself wondering how ancient peoples before us would react to something like this

MrGilbert

I love the fact that you can see the aurora at both poles!

nout

It took me a while to orient myself on that picture, until I realized where Spain is... :)

brcmthrowaway

Does there exist a camera that can zoom into a single person from this distance?

underlipton

Can't decide if this is "MOEAGARE ARUCHIMISU" moment or a "Transcending Time" moment.

susam

Much higher quality images are available on the NASA Image Library: Dark Side of the Earth: https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/amf-art002e000193/ Hello World: https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/fd02_for-pao/ On images-assets.nasa.gov, we can find the 5567x3712 resolution versions of these pictures: Dark Side of the Earth: https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e000193/art002e00... Hello World: https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e000192/art002e00...