Hello, World: Artemis II crew looks back at Earth on their way to the Moon

by ChiefLeef22

17 Comments

  1. IsChristianAwake on

    Wow, they don’t call it the *Blue Marble* for nothing, I can see.

    fyi, The reason we can see the Stars and City Lights is because of this picture being taken on the night side of the Earth + The longer exposure time.

  2. spacewithoutstars on

    Absolutely gorgeous, incredibly small and makes our differences seem so trivial.

  3. Continent of Africa, and the Iberian Peninsula (Portugal, Spain), bottom left

    Top right (South Pole), bottom left (North Pole), you’ll see some aurora

    And then bottom right, of course, the Sun peering through the atmosphere

  4. rocketmonkee on

    To orient folks: North is down; south is up. The large sandy mass at the bottom-left is the northern part of Africa, with the city lights of Spain just visible at the edge.

    As a bonus, the crew caught both the Aurora Borealis (bottom left) *and* the Aurora Australis (top right). Pretty fuckin’ awesome.

  5. StatisticianRemote77 on

    It’s both fascinating and frightening.
    How small we all are in the scale of space. Our entire history is kept in this little ball.

  6. Many-Wasabi9141 on

    Kinda cool how you can see the atmosphere from the sun backlighting the earth