This view of the Earth was captured on April 5, the fifth day of the Artemis II mission, from inside the Orion spacecraft. The four astronauts will reach their closest approach of the Moon tomorrow, April 6.
Source: NASA (https://www.nasa.gov/gallery/journey-to-the-moon/)
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**[NASA](https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/fd04_gmt95-fd4-pao-koch-10/):**
> One last look at Earth before we reach the Moon.
> This view of the Earth was captured on April 5, the fifth day of the Artemis II mission, from inside the Orion spacecraft. The four astronauts will reach their closest approach of the Moon tomorrow, April 6.
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> Peering out one of the four windows near the display console on the Orion spacecraft, the Earth is illuminated by the blackness of space and grows smaller as the crew journeys closer to the Moon. This image was taken by an Artemis II crew member on the fifth day of the mission.
God this one gives me the shivers
Source link please.
The fact that at this distance the moon affects our ocean is astonishing.
Chills, knowing that this is going on in real time gives me a feeling I haven’t felt before
Anyone else just simply unable to process that that’s…. us?
Every memory we have, vacation we have been to, people we know, has all been on that tiny marble suspended in the emptiness of space.
For reference, this photo was taken at 24mm, which is roughly the same field of view as the normal lens on your smartphone.
Imagine seeing the only place you’ve called home get so small
Fucking incredible!!
Engage warp drive. Oh… too soon?
Man that is intense
I love the fact that we’re all along for the ride hour by hour with the astronauts as they DEPART OUR PLANET. What an amazing thing.
It’s like when you glitch in a video game and just keep going higher and higher above the map
That’s everything right there. Family, friends, cultures, life. Incredible.
Damn
You need to have special kind of nerves to stay cool while watching yourself slowly drifting away.
What’s the deal with not even a faint hint of stars in the background? I suppose it has to do with light from the sun but still…
The art is amazing
Unfortunately, all i can think about are all the idiots focused on war and harming this beautiful planet.
So smol
Still got a blue sheen, surreal.
I’m so confused about where they are – did we not already see photos of the far side of the moon yesterday?
I firmly believe that we will someday have the capacity for long range space travel and it is the biggest regret of my life that I will not be there for it.
I’ve not found or read their mission objectives. Is it just Moon flyby and photographing or are there any other scientific objectives involved?
The fact most of the IG comments say this is all fake. I just can’t even imagine what they think we would get from faking this. This is amazing!
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OP sorry but you just doxxed yourself i can see where you live
That looks a lil far ngl
[We Are Here: The Pale Blue Dot ](https://youtu.be/3i2y4sEQpRI?si=RnT2FJZ9kE-Nzw0V)
Hello Earth
Hello Earth…
With just one hand held up high
I can blot you out,
Out of sight.
Peekaboo, pekaboo, little Earth.
– Kate Bush
Taking the long way home
You know, I bet its like that feeling when you’re a kid and you venture the furthest from your house than ever before, you looo back at where you live and just think fuck it and plow along anyway.
she tiny now
Wow, that’s insane. Even the Moon at its closest point looks bigger.
“Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,” every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.” -Carl Sagan
Sweet Christ, this is astonishingly amazing!!
One tiny dot of life surrounded by death. If more people felt what those astronauts feel right now, we would take care of the only place we can survive on.
I really wish NASA lived in a time frame at least a little faster than the average ent. Gimme moon base.
Bit surreal to say that I get to experience a moonlanding in real time. My grandpa could only watch the launch on TV with Apollo.
Now I get to follow the entire thing along.
We?
so earth is larger than the moon and they are currently closer to the earth than the moon would be but the earth appears smaller in the sky than the moon ever does from earth – what’s up with that?
All of the lore on that orb.
Flat Earthers, where are you at?
this mission gave me the KSP itch again