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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
#332Looking 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...
While the D5 is a great camera it's ~10 years old. Wonder why they didn't go for the Z9 which is its modern mirrorless equivalent.
From what I recall reading its more or less, "we have established and validated processes for using the D5."
Its less about getting the best possible photo, more about making sure what they do take looks fine and doesnt waste a ton of time.
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#333If you are interested in taking similar images, there are several satellites transmitting ‘full disk’ images like this, instead of a camera you need a dish or yagi a sdr and lna. Example satellites are Himawari 8, GOES 18, Fengyun 2H.
I remember watching grainy B+W ones in the 80s via a dish. It might have been a slow scan signal back then? It blew my mind watching the Earth live as a disk, seeing the weather in realtime.
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#334How are people still flat-earthers after stuff like this
I'm pretty sure people claim to be flat-earthers as a lark.
I know some MAGAs. I promise you they believe it 100%. They often talk of ice walls and one asked me if the Artemis mission would "break through the firmament"?
There is a huge side of TikTok and Reels that most of us here would never find on our feeds which is dedicated to insane conspiracy theories and constitutes a large amount of the media that MAGAs etc consume.
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#335What is that bright star like object on the bottom right? Is it Venus? I’m guessing it’s Venus because it’s much brighter than a star would be.
NASA confirmed it is Venus, yeah.
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#336I was trying to figure the country - I think north Africa upside down and Spain https://earth.google.com/web/@3.88879526,-24.75819914,62.068...
It's one of those stark reminders that there's no such thing as up or down in space, and something that disabuses me of the notion that I can truly comprehend "the enemy gate is down".
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#337Earlier quoted context omitted.
Flat Earth is a distraction or a way to ridicule any counter-narrative to anything scientific. When a cosmologist says that a planet nobody can see exists and is made of x% helium and is y light years away etc etc with absolute certainty despite nobody being able to go there and witness any of it (look how wrong they were about Pluto’s appearance), then you can always just say “what are you a Flat Earther” and easily…
> a planet nobody can see exists and is made of x% helium and is y light years away etc etc Yeah, because this is high-school curriculum. https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/resources/lesson-plan/using-lig... > with absolute certainty It is taught that the scientific method provides evidence, not certainty, in middle school science curriculum.
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#338Earlier quoted context omitted.
Flat Earth is a distraction or a way to ridicule any counter-narrative to anything scientific. When a cosmologist says that a planet nobody can see exists and is made of x% helium and is y light years away etc etc with absolute certainty despite nobody being able to go there and witness any of it (look how wrong they were about Pluto’s appearance), then you can always just say “what are you a Flat Earther” and easily…
> a planet nobody can see exists and is made of x% helium and is y light years away etc etc Yeah, because this is high-school curriculum. https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/resources/lesson-plan/using-lig... > with absolute certainty It is taught that the scientific method provides evidence, not certainty, in middle school science curriculum.
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#339Earlier quoted context omitted.
Flat Earth is a distraction or a way to ridicule any counter-narrative to anything scientific. When a cosmologist says that a planet nobody can see exists and is made of x% helium and is y light years away etc etc with absolute certainty despite nobody being able to go there and witness any of it (look how wrong they were about Pluto’s appearance), then you can always just say “what are you a Flat Earther” and easily…
> a planet nobody can see exists and is made of x% helium and is y light years away etc etc Yeah, because this is high-school curriculum. https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/resources/lesson-plan/using-lig... > with absolute certainty It is taught that the scientific method provides evidence, not certainty, in middle school science curriculum.
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#340Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
If I have to choose between the people protesting authoritarianism and those embracing it, I’ll take the former.