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The first high-definition "Earthset" captured by a human crew in over 50 years. Artemis II gives us a breathtaking 21st-century perspective of home. [4096 x 2732]
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The first high-definition “Earthset” captured by a human crew in over 50 years. Artemis II gives us a breathtaking 21st-century perspective of home. [4096 x 2732]


The first high-definition “Earthset” captured by a human crew in over 50 years. Artemis II gives us a breathtaking 21st-century perspective of home. [4096 x 2732]

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  1. fesCoder01 on

    if we were walking and we pass by a circle drawn in the road, a perfect 360 circle, what is more rational to think that this circle was made by a conscious, knowldgable and able being, or assume “nature” laws and natural process moved some particule in astonishing perfect way to form a circle ?!

    now i rise my head and a saw a bigger circle of a bigger body a 3D body rather the previous 2D one hanged in the sky without any visible support. this body is orbiting around our earth (full of amazing créatures and mountains and all what we need to survive at our disposal) is perfect trajectory, ruled by some extrem laws that if changed by a fraction we will not existe.

    Both of earth and the moon orbiting around a bigger body, which give us warm and light that is nécessairy for our existence and our position in the solar système is perfect also: if we get close by few kilomètres will be burn and if we get far by the same distance we will freeze.

    All this harmony all this perfection happened by coïncidence ?! all this happened by itself ?!

    “رَّبُّ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ وَمَا بَيْنَهُمَا فَاعْبُدْهُ وَاصْطَبِرْ لِعِبَادَتِهِ ۚ هَلْ تَعْلَمُ لَهُ سَمِيًّا (65) وَيَقُولُ الْإِنسَانُ أَإِذَا مَا مِتُّ لَسَوْفَ أُخْرَجُ حَيًّا (66) أَوَلَا يَذْكُرُ الْإِنسَانُ أَنَّا خَلَقْنَاهُ مِن قَبْلُ وَلَمْ يَكُ شَيْئًا” سورة مريم

    “Lord of the heavens and the earth, and all that is between them, so worship Him (Alone) and be constant and patient in His worship. Do you know of any who is similar to Him?

    And man (the disbeliever) says: “When I am dead, shall I then be raised up alive?

    Does not man remember that We created him before, while he was nothing?”

    Quran Surat Mariem verses 65-66-67

  5. gabrrdt on

    I just wish we could go back in time and show this to Galileo or something. Just so many good people stood for this moment. This is the achievement of many generations.

  6. Inconsistent_Sanity on

    Is there a link to download the image? Reddit compresses the picture when i save the image through iPhone.

  7. ChuckNorrisUSAF on

    Link or it never happened in the resolution and quality you said it happened in. 😂

    Compression rate sucks on social media platforms.

  11. RogerRabbot on

    Interestingly, this photo is rotated so that earth appears on the horizon. It is in fact going behind the side of the moon based off the trajectory of the vehicle. But since perspective is a funny thing in space, there is no true orientation for a photo taken like this.

    Also, the earth set and rise are caused actually by the orbit of the craft. As the vehicle moves around and behind the moon, we get earth set. And as it orbits out from behind the moon, we get earth rise. But if youre standing on the moon the earth would appear to be static in the sky, never moving from its spot in the sky.

    Im so happy we live in an era of high definition photography because the images coming back from Artemis are truly mind blowing. And some of these images are by pure luck or chance.