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https://www.reddit.com/r/3DS/comments/1sakb3v/artemis_ii_lau... The launch, shot on a Nintendo 3DS. For those with a gen z-like retro tech streak.
What a mad idea. The aesthetic ended up pretty cool but I can’t imagine the thought process that lead to capturing the launch on a 3DS.
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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
Haven't any of the space probes taken such pictures as they left to wander through the solar system?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SELENE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SELENE#/media/File:Earth_at_11...
If 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.
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...
Before Lightroom it might have looked closer to this: https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e000193/art002e00...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_first_images_of_Ea...
- first video listed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1946-11-21_White_Sands_NM...
quite amazing
This is all we've got. We need to do a better job of preserving it.
> We need to do a better job of preserving it. I reject this sentiment. Ask anyone that you know who lived through the 1960s in a rich country. Their experience is nearly all the same: The air quality and environmental pollution was appalling. When my mother lived in Manhattan (New York City) in the 1960s, she would return home from work, and wipe her face with a cloth. The cloth had black streaks from all the pollut…
By "scars" you mean the permanent destruction of coral reefs, old-growth forests, and the species that depend on them? These cannot be rebuilt on any timescale meaningful to civilization. What exactly are you defending?
Survival is the floor, not a metric of success.
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Yes, the D5s are the 'official' Handheld Universal Lunar Cameras (HULCs), but (a?) Z9 also got on-board at the 'last minute' (which means two years ago): * https://petapixel.com/2026/04/02/a-nikon-z9-made-it-aboard-t... They have a thermal blanket for exterior work: * https://petapixel.com/2026/02/24/artemis-ii-astronauts-will-... * https://petapixel.com/2025/01/10/the-custom-nikon-z9-and-the... * Various stories wit…
as a Hassie lover it made me a bit sad that they went with a D5 but hey, who cares about the camera, the picture was worth a billion bucks and it delivered. It's so refreshing to be mesmorised by a picture in the age of shorts and reels.
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I would imagine since they are not circling the earth, that there will be pull of gravity and the camera would start to move relative to the spacecraft. But may not fast enough for a short exposure
They’re not circling the Earth, but they’re still orbiting it. Their orbit is highly eccentric, and will be near the Moon at apogee.
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.
I’m an amateur photographer and I’m actually incredibly impressed at how good the optical image stabilization tech is these days even in entry-level cameras. I wouldn’t hesitate to use 1/4 s shutter speed when necessary (such as in many indoor environments) and I’m quite amazed at the sharpness.
