Daniel Pomarède1d ago

Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman took this picture of Earth from the Orion spacecraft after completing the translunar injection burn. There are two auroras (top right & bottom left) and zodiacal light (bottom right) is visible as the Earth eclipses the Sun.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/hello-world/

#Earth #Artemis #Artemis2 #Orion #Integrity #OrionIntegrity #spacecraft #NASA #Moon #space #aurora

Show threadPaul Wilde    23h ago
@pomarede absolutely marvelous.
What are we thinking... North Africa and south coast of Spain on the left?
Show threadGreg Kemp

@paul @pomarede I believe the large land mass in the center of the globe is north Africa. Antarctica is "top". Spain is lower left, and South America is obscured by clouds on the right.

This is an absolutely incredible photograph.

Apr 3 at 6:07pmWeb
Show threadPaul Wilde    17h ago

@gkemp @pomarede yeah, equatorial africa is very distinctive.
Amazing photograph

As one of my friends said today: "I'm glad they took actual proper photography equipment rather than iPhones"