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]
Turn the image upside down. The desert is Sahara.
Yeah, took me a while to parse the geography. The picture seems to be taken upside down over the south Atlantic.
Spain is visible, south America partially covered by clouds.
I like it this way. It poses an interesting challenge and new perspective.
author of the photo is secret agent of cartographers for social equality… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH1bZ0F3zVU
Your username had me quite worried!
no need to worry. so say we all.