Starry Time Podcast

Our pale blue dot as seen from the Artemis II mission

📷 :https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/04/02/artemis-ii-flight-update-perigee-raise-burn-complete/

#artemis #Artemis2 #Artemis_II #Orion #Astrophotography #space #science #astronomy #Earth #astroDon #NASA

Apr 2 at 11:18pmWeb
Show threadEarl14h ago

@starrytimepod
Would you agree that the Earth appears to be egg-shaped? It does not look like a perfectly round sphere. But the egg shape is actually the perfect shape, not the sphere.

#Artemis #Earth #moon

Show threadGlenn Seto7h ago
@starrytimepod Shots taken from what appears to be some distance outside the ship always feel so precarious, even though the camera + whatever structure is holding it are meticulously engineered and also not currently subject to a surrounding atmosphere or relativistic speeds.