Mastodawn

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#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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Michelle Hughes

@stux

Finally, 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!

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Michelle Hughes 15h ago

@stux

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.

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Michelle Hughes 15h ago

@stux

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.

KAGUYA (SELENE) - Science - from the Moon