Why 'spectacular' the quotes I'm sad not alive at a time like Cowboy Bebop oh well, this is a great pic, overview effect
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Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth
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It sure does. But this trip is real. As was Apollo.
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#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
Before Lightroom it might have looked closer to this: https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e000193/art002e00...
Might I ask, what was your path to finding this image?
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#104Looking 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...
Nice. It would've been cool to see what the location information in the EXIF looked like, if it were there.
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#105Does there exist a camera that can zoom into a single person from this distance?
Relevant XKCD "what if?" [0] is relevant.
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#106Why 'spectacular' the quotes I'm sad not alive at a time like Cowboy Bebop oh well, this is a great pic, overview effect
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It is funny if you think about it, imagine you arrive on a planet and there is nothing there, now what. Not saying it is not worth doing but it's like other aspects of life, about the journey. But yeah I think we are lucky to have this ability/get outside of our sandbox. Be aware of the bigger picture.
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
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It is funny if you think about it, imagine you arrive on a planet and there is nothing there, now what. Not saying it is not worth doing but it's like other aspects of life, about the journey. But yeah I think we are lucky to have this ability/get outside of our sandbox. Be aware of the bigger picture.
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#109whats different between this and all the other pics of earth from various space devices
I saw someone point out on reddit that this probably the first digital picture of the whole earth (well, 1 side of it) taken by a person
Apollo used film and it's been a long time since anyone has gone past LEO
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#110I love the fact that you can see the aurora at both poles!
I wish I could see a pic from today with the aurora. I was surprised to see the aurora in northern Europe a couple hours ago, it is very active right now.