Mastodawn

As I suspected, media are getting very confused about that #Artemis II Earth image, thanks to NASA’s poor original captioning.

This BBC article shows it as “Hello, world” without knowing / noting that it’s the dark side, illuminated by moonlight.

Then lower in the article it says NASA later released another image, this time showing Earth in near complete darkness with city lights.

Edit: not exactly the same image, but 19 sec apart with different exposures.

The snap was taken aboard the Orion capsule by its commander, Reid Wiseman, as the crew head towards the Moon.

BBC News

It's also South Pole at the top, North Africa in the lower left, with Iberia (Europe) below it.

Also, the Apollo XVII image in early Dec, while Artemis II is early April. Almost 4 months difference in terms of axial tilt.

@gnoll110 Yes, sure, & that much the BBC article gets right 🙃

I've seem the image rotated on other sites.