This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew.
Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right.
Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
// That’s home. That’s us.
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Alternative references of better image quality mentioned in comments by @baguette@piefed.social:
- https://images.nasa.gov/details/art002e000192;
- https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e000192/art002e000192~orig.jpg [5568 x 3712]
Not sure if my original comment went through, here’s a rotated version for those struggling with the orientation
Edit: Tried to line up as similar an angle as I could be bothered to on Google Maps
yeah, I can’t believe a team of professional astronauts don’t know which way up to hold a camera. I hope someone got fired for this.
/s
Wait, so that image looks kind of… flat??? 🤔
I’m just asking questions! Doing my own research!
Oh! That’s Africa!
I am an idiot, what continent is that brown land mass?
North Africa. That’s the strait of Gibraltar and Spain lower left. It’s not in the orientation that you’re used to, north is somewhere to the left.