Astronauts left just in time before a wave of green light will be turning us all to stone
Edit: wait wtf you can actually see one at the top XD
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Hopefully, someone in Japan with a leek haircut will emerge and restore civilization /s
My eyes were closed
The Overview Effect (a supposed increase in wisdom from simply seeing your home planet from far away) is mostly a distraction from solving the problems of deciding who gets to own stuff in space and how do we as a society mitigate the risk of autocrats hurling extinction-level rocks at one another for their own personal short term profit.
Ok but cool rock where I live though
The part with oxygen is very thin lol
Think they emailed it down?
They installed a 3rd outlook just for that picture
Looks pretty fake to me, AI definitely made it, and the earth is definitely flat and square despite this.
The world is flat and circular. This pic proves it.
looks pretty flat though,must be real
and now i am confused, can you two just make up your mind and tell me what to think? damn it...
/s?
"/s?".replace("?","")
the fuck did you call me
"/s"
What's that light in the middle?
could be aliens, could be reflection on window through which the photo was taken. we will never know. π€·ββοΈ
yawn, I've seen pictures like these since decades. Why did we need to send four people in a tin can for this now?
to quote the old meme:
hey, i'm in a picture with all my friends!
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
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.
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
Oh! That's Africa!
Wait, so that image looks kind of... flat??? π€
I'm just asking questions! Doing my own research!
Anyone know if the grain is due to radiation or just ISO?
They left the EXIF data in the file, you can see the huge ISO. Really interesting lens also.
EDIT: I've now seen this is actually the night side, so it checks out.
This is full of interesting but slightly puzzling information.
First, it's shot at 22mm, which is a pretty wide angle, so I guess they were still pretty close when they took it.
What's really puzzling to me though, is why did they need to crank up the exposure so much?
We're looking at 51k ISO @ f4, I can shoot in really dark places with this kind of ISO (but I don't, because it looks like trash).
They seem to be shooting the day side of earth as far as I can tell, so I don't really understand why they needed that much sensitivity, instinctively I would've assumed you'd only need the same kind of settings you'd use on daytime exteriors here on earth (so nowhere near that ISO).
This is on the night side of Earth, so lit only by moonlight. Itβs grain from long exposure.
Oooh it's the night side??? That makes a lot more sense, but I'll still leave my other comment up for info.
Thanks!
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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.
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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.
Isnβt that the nazi social media?
If it makes you feel any better- it's also mostly bots.
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