You'll likely catch this image a million times in your various feeds: Earth as seen by Reid Wiseman from Artemis II en-route to the Moon.

My first thought? That's *really* noisy 🧐

But then I realised – it's the *nightside* of Earth, illuminated by the almost full Moon, not the Sun 🌕

The bright limb at lower-right is where the dayside starts, & the fact that you can see aurorae, airglow, & cities in Europe, Africa, & S & N America also gives the game away.

Cool.

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@markmccaughrean uh... I thought that was South Australia and Tasmania 😅

@ranx Am pretty sure that's North Africa, then Spain & Portugal on the left-hand side, with South America at right, & North America at lower-right.

Worth remembering that they were probably still pretty close to Earth when this was taken, so even though it's round, it's quite heavily "distorted" by perspective, as the nadir point is quite a bit closer to them than the limbs.

@markmccaughrean oh right! Now that I flipped the phone I can see the shape of Spain! 😄