A community to discuss space & astronomy through a STEM lens
Also keep in mind, mander.xyz's rules on politics
Please keep politics to a minimum. When science is the focus, intersection with politics may be tolerated as long as the discussion is constructive and science remains the focus. As a general rule, political content posted directly to the instance’s local communities is discouraged and may be removed. You can of course engage in political discussions in non-local communities.
🔭 Science
🚀 Engineering
🌌 Art and Photography
This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew.
Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right.
Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
// That's home. That's us.
---
Alternative references of better image quality mentioned in comments by @baguette@piefed.social:
- https://images.nasa.gov/details/art002e000192;
- https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e000192/art002e000192~orig.jpg [5568 x 3712]
Here's the full res shot from the NASA website:
click for full res
https://images.nasa.gov/
They should have brought a brighter lens, heh.
More:
click to expand
On a seperate note, the top Twitter comments are making my brain rot:
circles aurora
(seemingly a bot post?)
(posts a picture of a Google AI search hallucination)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HE_cAXKaMAAunQ_?format=jpg
I knew Twitter was bad now, but... Wow.
Isn’t that the nazi social media?
Dammit. It's upside down. Again!
If it makes you feel any better- it's also mostly bots.
Remember when the earth used to be more green than brown?
🫥
I'm pretty sure you're staring at the Sahara dessert.
I'm pretty sure you are incorrect
It is, indeed, the Sahara desert. Africa is upside down, but that little tip at the bottom of the photo is the Strait of Gibraltar. That greener lit up coast on the right is the Americas... Brazil, I think?
Nope
Check old pictures
Nope. Definitely always been brown.