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Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth
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#202How are people still flat-earthers after stuff like this
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#203Re: Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth
#204Looking 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...
The EXIF data says that the picture was taken with the flash off!
How did they get the Earth to light up when it is obviously dark outside? Is this fake?
Re: Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth
#205How are people still flat-earthers after stuff like this
Because without the network effect of adequate education, scientific understanding doesn't scale.
What does scale, unfortunately, is arrant nonsense.
Re: Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth
#206How are people still flat-earthers after stuff like this
Maybe I'm just a dumb optimist, but I've always assumed that the flat earthers started out as an enteraining debate club intentionally trying to prove something impossible just for the challenge, which got overtaken by a tiny number of vocal idiots. I have heard they largely have moved on to Qanon, which tracks.
Re: Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth
#207How are people still flat-earthers after stuff like this
You can't claim to have superior knowledge if you admit you're wrong.
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#208Why didn't NASA or the news agencies rotate the image so North is up? and slightly to the right. That would make Africa instantly recognizable as that's how maps are imprinted in our brains.
There is no "up" in space, so that wouldn't be editing the image I feel. The camera just happened to be oriented "upside down".
Re: Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth
#209To paraphrase Carl Sagan: insignificant plant in an insignificant galaxy and there’s a good chance we’ll annihilate ourselves.
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#210Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Lightroom one was processed from raw. Also, by brightening it a lot, the noisy high-ISO grain becomes more apparent. Noise is famously incompressible, so it leads to a much larger file size.
Brightening the image may make the iso noise easier to see, but it doesn't create it.
It's not lossless