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stux⚡️Hello, World
#NASA astronaut and #Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman took this picture of #Earth from the #Orion spacecraft's window on April 2, 2026, after completing the translunar injection burn.
Image Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
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Rob Pumphrey@stux
Looks upside down. Are the astronauts standing on their heads?
Looks upside down. Are the astronauts standing on their heads?
@robpumphrey Or we!
It doesn't matter up there 
gri573@stux I'm wondering if this is the first (or among the first) picture taken of the entire earth at once using a smartphone... (Not aware of anything involving people substantially above low earth orbit since the Apollo missions, and don't see why people would would put a smartphone on an uncrewed mission (excluding individual components))
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Stingray Villa Cozumel@stux thank you
Michelle HughesFinally, another one of these!
The only one we've had forever is the Apollo 15 one.
Once, maybe around 2008, I seem to recall finding a page from a Japanese probe that was landed on the moon and had photo archives available to the public, and it had some new full-disc-of-the-earth pics, but I can't find them anymore.
But now there's another one!
Also, there's tons of mosaic pictures from leo satellites, but I don't want that, I want photos of the earth, that show the clouds and everything.
This was probably the Japanese probe I was thinking of. Kaguya (selene). It was an orbiter, not a lander.
https://www.selene.jaxa.jp/en/science/from_moon_e.htm
I can't find the gallery of pictures on the website, tho.
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ChancerubbageIs the moon trying to peep out from behind on this point of view?
@Chancerubbage @stux since the Sun is behind the Earth, and I can see Jupiter on the sky at night around 8 PM, I believe that bright spot is Venus
This is the night sky of earth as illuminated by the full moon.
Venus, in the zodiacal light, makes sense given the Suns position on the other side of earth.
Jupiter I believe is still prominent in our night skies and would be behind the moon.
I tried to eak out some brighter constellations behind Earth that would take some work from me.
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