whats different between this and all the other pics of earth from various space devices
It’s taken by a human on the way to the moon.
Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth
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Re: Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth
#72Hello again dot.
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. — Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994
Re: Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth
#73Looking at the EXIF (with exiftool) for the image uploaded by NASA (https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/art002e00019...), apparently this was taken by a Nikon D5 with an AF-S Zoom-Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8G ED and developed with Lightroom. It also seems like very little was done in Lightroom. Amazing...
I dumped the whole EXIF here: https://gist.github.com/umgefahren/a6f555e6588a98adb74eed79d...
Re: Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth
#74wait why is it round?
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Re: Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth
#75Looking at the EXIF (with exiftool) for the image uploaded by NASA ( https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/art002e00019... ), apparently this was taken by a Nikon D5 with an AF-S Zoom-Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8G ED and developed with Lightroom. It also seems like very little was done in Lightroom. Amazing... I dumped the whole EXIF here: https://gist.github.com/umgefahren/a6f555e6588a98adb74eed79d...
Thanks! This was my first question.
Re: Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth
#76Come on flat-earthers. I know you are out there. Lets hear your crazy rant about how this is a fisheye lens on a weather balloon or a webcam atop the eiffel tower. Why can't we see the poles? And is that an ice wall on poking up in the lower-right quadrant of the disk?
There is no point engaging in any way with people who believe in such "theories". They are like trolls, the only way to deal with them is not at all. Don't engage, don't disagree, just nothing, total silence. One can choose to be a wilful edit and waste your life and time on complete bullshit, but the rest of us should just ignore those people completely.
Ya, but eventually they all wind up wearing furs and carrying spears as they storm the gates of some government building. Its all good fun until people start to die. We laugh as soveriegn citizens are yanked from thier cars. Harder to watch are the vids of them pulling guns on police.
Conspiracy theorists need to be kept in check. Disengagment is easy but it doesnt help.
Re: Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth
#77How come the pictures have such bad quality ? Is it a bandwidth issue ? Or there are really constraints that are not so obvious ? Because fundamentally it is a large object illuminated by sunlight.
No, it's BBC's compression of that image. Look at the original: https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/fd02_for-pao/ It's grainy, but the detail is terrific.
@dang, mods: maybe this should be the post's link. The image quality is much higher.
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#78Why 'spectacular' the quotes
I'm sad not alive at a time like Cowboy Bebop oh well, this is a great pic, overview effect
Re: Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth
#79How come the pictures have such bad quality ? Is it a bandwidth issue ? Or there are really constraints that are not so obvious ? Because fundamentally it is a large object illuminated by sunlight.
No, it's BBC's compression of that image. Look at the original: https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/fd02_for-pao/ It's grainy, but the detail is terrific.
No GPS coordinates in the EXIF data. Would've been funny.
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