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Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth

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Re: Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth

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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?

Possibly you're just joking, but it's pretty obvious that the flash would not appreciably illuminate the entire earth.

Obviously. It was a joke.

Re: Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth

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One of the objectives of the Artemis missions is to prepare for Mars travel, none of the objectives of Artemis are to view Earth as the only planet we have nor to preserve it.

You must be a capitalist pig with trump delusion, lol! This point of artemis is to prove the earth is flat. the picture proves it! I downvote thee!

Proving the Earth is flat is not one of the stated goals of the Artemis program which is to establish a permanent base on the moon to prepare for deep space exploration.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_program

Re: Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth

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Why is spectacular in quotations? I keep seeing this in headlines, is it because they're quoting a single word?

It’s a BBC journalistic standards thing; the BBC doesn’t want to express an opinion about the image, they are relaying that as a quote from someone about the image. The word “spectacular” is attributed to NASA in the article.

Re: Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth

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Looking 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...

I'd have probably shot it wide open at f/2.8 rather than cranking the ISO up to 51200. Incredibly impressed at the steady hands for a sharp image at 1/4 s shutter speed though! Maybe they just let the camera float in space with the mirror up, triggering it remotely.

It was shot at f/4, so opening up 1 stop to f/2.8 would only reduce the ISO to 25600

Re: Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth

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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.

...sounds like the No-Kings people

Yeah, certainly not the kings cult.

Re: Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth

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But why not film everything like skydivers do in 8K 120fps from every angle and live stream it? After all, it is 2026...and near-Earth missions like the Moon can now support hundreds of Mbps (even approaching Gbps with laser communication). In the age of live streaming, wasn't this taken into account? All we got is a choppy 480p video feed, if that.
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