EARTHSET (captured by Artemis-II in 2026)
Earthset captured through the Orion spacecraft window at 6:41 p.m. EDT, April 6, 2026, during the Artemis II crew\u2019s flyby of the Moon. A muted blue Earth with bright white clouds sets behind the cratered lunar surface. The dark portion of Earth is experiencing nighttime. On Earth\u2019s day side, swirling clouds are visible over the Australia and Oceania region.\nIn the foreground, Ohm crater has terraced edges and a flat floor interrupted by central peaks. Central peaks form in complex craters when the lunar surface, liquefied on impact, splashes upwards during the crater\u2019s formation. Credit: NASA
EARTHRISE (captured by Apollo-8 in 1968)
NASA astronaut Bill Anders took this iconic image of Earth rising over the Moon’s horizon on Dec. 24, 1968. Anders, lunar module pilot on the Apollo 8 mission, and fellow astronauts Frank Borman and Jim Lovell became the first humans to orbit the Moon and the first to witness the sight pictured. After becoming a fighter pilot in the Air Force, Anders was selected as an astronaut by NASA. He was backup pilot for the Gemini XI and Apollo 11 flights, and he was lunar module pilot for Apollo 8 – the first lunar orbit mission in December 1968. Anders passed away on June 7, 2024.
by GiveMeSomeSunshine3
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Film wins again 🥺
Digital 👁️👄👁️
Both beautiful photos
down here still kickin, baby
Longer lens today.
Graphics improved.
How absolutely mind bending it must be to see the world, everything you’ve ever known and loved, disappear behind the horizon of the moon.
If I were one of those astronauts there would have to be protocols specifically for the tears pouring out of my face.
The vast emptiness of space is so haunting
RTX OFF vs RTX ON
Dude every time I see these photos it stops me in my tracks
Fake news. Earth is flat.
Its somehow tears me up whenever im looking at these new pictures for a long time, i guess in a good way, idk
She looks blue-er back then.
Great images! I do have to say, the original Earthrise looks better photographically since it was shot on medium-format film and probably on a Hasselblad. The iPhones that they took on this journey are very good, but I hope they take something like a Hasselblad (digital is fine) or a high-end full-frame camera with them on future trips.
Is that Western Africa and the Sahara Desert in the Apollo 8 picture?
Why are they different? The earth size and the moon curvature.
Obviously lens angle. But which one is more realistic from the astronauts’ view? I assume the Apollo because the surface is less curved.
But if that is so, why did they decide to publish a more distorted photo today?
I think nothing could ever beat Apollo 8 photo… It’s so iconic, you see us there alone so tiny, so meaningless, in the middle of that darkness.