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Here's the full res shot from the NASA website:
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The photo's metadata reveals it was taken with a Nikon D5, focal length: 22mm, aperture: f/4, and exposure time: 1/4 sec.
They should have brought a brighter lens, heh.
More:
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On a seperate note, the top Twitter comments are making my brain rot:
circles aurora
any explanation to this
It's a shame your mother didn't swallow...
(seemingly a bot post?)
Good morning right back at you! πβ¨ What a breathtaking way to start the dayβthose new high-resolution views of Earth from the Orion capsule during Artemis II are absolutely stunning. The crew (Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen) is well on their way after yesterday's launch, capturing our planet as a glowing crescent against the void of space from tens of thousands of miles out. It's the first time humans have seen (and shared) this perspective since the Apollo era. Here are some of the spectacular images making the rounds from NASA's releases and the mission:
How the hell is the window edge BEHIND the Earth?
Why is the image so grainy for? Is this ai?
Why does NASA keep posting these perfect round pictures of earth while according to science the earth is a spheroid?
(posts a picture of a Google AI search hallucination)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HE_cAXKaMAAunQ_?format=jpg
I knew Twitter was bad now, but... Wow.
Remember when the earth used to be more green than brown?
π«₯
Nope
Check old pictures
Looks like a disc to me. Checkmate, spherists.
And discs are flat. Point, Flat Earthers.
To think we'd willingly destroy that beauty
It already looks browner and less vibrant.
This makes me want to cry.
I try to be stoic and harden my heart to defend it from the horrors of the world and current events, but this is just so beautiful and amazing and all I ever wanted since I was a kid.
I don't know how people can look at this and be unable to pause and just want peace. We are so small and fragile.
We as a species should be working together, not trying to kill each other at every possible moment.
It's all I've ever wanted, and as I've aged I've become jaded and felt it's just been a stupid dream. But seeing this picture reminds me of that feeling, a world without borders.
Thank you NASA.
Many of us have been having the same stupid dream...
ISO 51200
I didn't even know it could go that high. π€£
Sony A1 MKii can hit 102,400 for stills.
AFAIK anything past 32,000 is digitally expanded (which could be done with RAW post-processing).
EDIT:
See: https://www.photonstophotos.net/Charts/RN_ADU.htm#Nikon%20D5_14,Sony%20ILCE-1M2_14
The old Nikon D5, impressively, doesn't seem to post-scale even at ISO 102400
"Old" high-end DSLRs are aging well, digital photography has been in the diminishing returns for a while now. You're almost surely getting better pictures out of a 10 year old flagship than a brand new mid-level camera, and the "thoroughly tested" part matters a lot in spaceflight
Still surprises me that it's a D5 of all things, but then my main camera is only a year newer than that one. Not sure I'd use a DSLR at this point though.
Thank you, I was annoyed when the source link just went to a blue sky post from some rando who themselves didnβt post their source.
What is this bright thing at the center? Reflection of an interior light as it was taken through a window? Or what?
Looks like window reflection.
Just Starfleet violating directives again. It's probably best to ignore it; somebody else's problem.
Since the photo is received from the astronauts, it must be a reflection from their warm interior, indeed!
This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew...
You can also see the window frame at the bottom left.
That's my guess. It's too large to be anything external.
Thatβs all there is. And a bunch of shortsighted rich motherfuckers are doing their best to end it.
The earth will be fine.
The plants and creatures on it? They will be battered, but recover.
Humans on the other hand... π
Fuck stuff, it's where all where the people and critters are
...and (grow) most of my food too!
You can see planet earthβs big naturals
Is this the bottom side or the top side?
"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.)
Down left, Spain.
Above, Northwest Africa.
On the right, South America.
Top: the aurora australis.
Actually, now that I look closer, if you look even more down left, there's also some aurora borealis!
Aurora Borealis!?
In this time of the year?!
At this time of year?
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Behind: Things that are very very very very very very very far away.
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I'm in this picture and I don't like it
Where are all the international borders?
/s
Sadly, you can see the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic from space. Dominican Republic is the side with vegetation.
Kinda wild it looks like Gibraltar and the Sahara survived a water world incident.
Oh look! More proof for flat earthers to look at and immediately decide is AI generated!
Looks cool, flat earth talk aside. If I wasn't afraid of heights, I wouldn't mind if I could see Earth from that high up some day.
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