Clive Thompson

The photos coming back from the Artemis 2 moon mission are pretty fabulous

there haven't been any photos of the whole earth from this perspective taken by humans for over fifty years

more here: https://www.npr.org/sections/the-picture-show/2026/04/03/nx-s1-5773282/artemis-ii-nasa-photos

Apr 4 at 2:18amWeb
Show threadJesse Cail2d ago
@clive Heard them talk about some photos they just took of the moon a few minutes ago on the live stream. Can't wait for those!
Show threadClive Thompson2d ago

@jesse_cail

I heard that on the live stream too!

Show threadMarisa2d ago
@clive so lovely!! What a perspective...
Show threadClive Thompson2d ago

@marisa

It’s great, eh?

Show threadCEDunn2d ago
@clive humans took the pictures that were returned by robotic missions; the execution was just different
Show threadClive Thompson1d ago

@cdunnpasadena

Good point!

Show threadDarkCyberman2d ago
@clive I really want to place a hateful comment here that this is the home of all of us and it’s being trashed by the same group of people that took the picture. You know the type of response right? With cursing and yelling and all.
Then I realized that it wouldn’t help a thing. All I wanted to transfer is that this is it, a picture of were we all live and there is no alternative in the neighborhood.
Show threadArthur van der Harg1d ago
@clive It’s beautiful. Pretty strong aurora on there!
Show threadClive Thompson1d ago

@ArtHarg

Truly!

Show threadCarlana ​1d ago
@clive the robots took some good pictures tho. Did you see the eclipse shadow or the lunar transit ones by https://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov ?
EPIC :: DSCOVR

Daily natural color imagery of Earth from the EPIC camera onboard the DSCOVR spacecraft.

Show threadClive Thompson1d ago

@carlana

That one’s great — thank you, I hadn’t seen it!