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Posted by andsoitis 3 days ago

Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth(www.bbc.com)
https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/fd02_for-pao/
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skc 2 days ago|
It's humbling to see this image. I can't even begin to imagine what it must feel like to see this from the perspective of those astronauts.
nout 3 days ago||
It took me a while to orient myself on that picture, until I realized where Spain is... :)
egeozcan 2 days ago||
Dear some very-rich person, please send a selfie-camera to the space! Yes, all that effort so we can keep looking at ourselves on a planet scale.
TimByte 2 days ago||
It sounds trivial, but perspective shots like this are part of why public support for space programs exists at all
MengerSponge 2 days ago||
Good news! We already have that! If you pay taxes to the US that's one of the thing you've helped pay for:

https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/imagery/satellite-maps

For reasons that are unexplainable if you're the NYTimes, polluting industries have been trying to kill these missions for decades.

egeozcan 2 days ago||
I'm not a US resident but I'm immensely disappointed in myself because I didn't know this existed.

I guess the rich person who was just planning to respond to my request needs to find another thing to spend their money on :)

mkoryak 3 days ago||
This is exactly what I need for printing as 14x10 4x6 photos stitched together!
mrcwinn 3 days ago||
A beautiful reminder of what's possible with photography when you're using more than a comparatively crappy iPhone Pro Max camera. (Oh and taking the shot from Outer Space.)
6thbit 1 day ago||
Is there an annotated picture mapping city “light dots” to city names?
darkoob12 2 days ago||
Shouldn't we see satellites around earth? Like in Wall-E :)
djfobbz 2 days ago||
But why not film everything like skydivers do in 8K 120fps from every angle and live stream it? After all, it is 2026...and near-Earth missions like the Moon can now support hundreds of Mbps (even approaching Gbps with laser communication). In the age of live streaming, wasn't this taken into account? All we got is a choppy 480p video feed, if that.
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