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]
"As we can clearly see, the earth is flat, with australia being the only continent, apart from what we believe to be “east asia”. Also: this whole mission is totally fake. "
– Conspiracy mystics, probably.
(Edit: we are seeing north africa and western parts of south europe.)
So all the maps without New Zealand were true!
Btw it’s Africa. And a bit of Europe.