Anyone find the full res version of this ? Nasa images page is useless. Government work.
They're here: https://www.nasa.gov/gallery/journey-to-the-moon/ Direct link to this image: https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/art002e00019...
Jpeg.
Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth
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Re: Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth
#412Earlier quoted context omitted.
ISO changes the analog gain and in a way yes, it does make it more sensitive to a certain range of brightness . This is because the ADC (analog to digital converter) right after can only handle so many bits of data (like 12-16ish in consumer cameras). You want to “center” the data “spread” so when the “ends” get cut off, it’s not so bad. Adjusting the ISO moves this spread around. In addition, even if you had an infi…
> your goal is to change the environment ...or integration time.
But preferably the environment since longer exposures also add more noise.
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#413Earlier quoted context omitted.
Good grief, that video suffers the YouTube-ism of "ramble on about how you don't understand X" for way too long. Video alleges people think ISO makes the sensor "more sensitive or less sensitive". (I … don't think this is common? But IDK, maybe this is my feldspar.) (The video also quibbles that it is "ISO setting" not "ISO" … while showing shots of cameras which call it "ISO", seemingly believing that some of us bel…
Sounds like you'll be spending your day making a better video! :-)
Why when he already made a comment that has a much better content density than any video would. Not everything needs someone rambling in front of a camera.
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#414Earlier quoted context omitted.
This photo could be easily faked. I don't believe the Earth is flat, but I also don't think everybody on the planet should be 100% on one side of a discussion. Even if flat-earthers are kinda dumb, I think it's worse to force everyone into intellectual submission just because you're "right".
Even if clearly one side is correct without any doubt whatsoever, beyond any question? Such as 2+2=4 -- we should accept a situation where some people insist this is not true? It seems irrational.
Arithmetic is only true axiomatically, which is a fancy way of saying that 2+2=4 is merely an opinion.
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#415I often think about what an amazing time it is to be alive and how amazing all the tech we have at our fingertips is. But I am also incredibly saddened by the fact that I was probably born just shy of routine space travel. I can not even imagine how amazing it would be to look down on earth and see it in its entirety. Hopefully my kids or my grandkids will be able to achieve my dream and do exactly that.
If you had routine space travel, you would be upset that you can't time travel.
Well first he'd be sad about only being able to travel the solar system because everything else is so far away.
Re: Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth
#416Earlier quoted context omitted.
They did bring the Z9: https://petapixel.com/2026/04/02/a-nikon-z9-made-it-aboard-t... But yeah the grainy photo of the Earth with the D5 at ISO 51200 shows the shortcomings of the ancient DSLR. Still, great shot.
How does the age of the camera influence physics? The only thing that really helps would be increasing the aperture.
Newer backside illuminated sensors have better quantum efficiency and are sensitive to a greater fraction of the light hitting the sensor thanks to the lack of electronics physically blocking the photosites. Not to mention advances in read noise and other stuff (less relevant for high end CMOS sensors for short exposures, which are shot noise dominated, but still).
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#417Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're complaining that people dismiss you without taking you seriously while being completely unserious. You cannot preach against dogma while literally calling those who disagree with you cultists and paid agitators. You cannot complain that people refuse to engage with your arguments when you refuse to engage with theirs. (You didn't express these complaints to me but I see them in your other comments.) Or rather,…
> You're complaining that people dismiss you without taking you seriously while being completely unserious. Fact check: Wrong. I made no such complaint. You just completely made that up, in a sad attempt to smear me. > You didn't express these complaints to me but I see them in your other comments. Completely made up nonsense. No connection to reality. The comment history on this throwaway account is short. It's easy…
> How to talk to a science cultist: you can't, as your post will be immediately flagged and censored.
This was the comment I was referring to, as well as a vibe/through line in the rest of your comments. If I misinterpreted you I apologize.
Regarding your flagged comment, I am a human being for whatever that's worth. I don't really know what to tell you about your world view other than that it's deeply mistaken and seems to be informed more by paranoia than evidence.
Entertain for me the idea that you are mistaken. If you have built a worldview that interprets disconfirming evidence as a further layer of conspiracy and people who disagree as professional propogandists - how would you ever change your mind?
Any belief which functions as a ratchet and gets tighter and tighter without any mechanism to change your mind will eventually strangle your ability to understand the world.
Re: Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth
#418Much higher quality images are available on the NASA Image Library: Dark Side of the Earth: https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/amf-art002e000193/ Hello World: https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/fd02_for-pao/ On images-assets.nasa.gov, we can find the 5567x3712 resolution versions of these pictures: Dark Side of the Earth: https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e000193/art002e00... Hello World: https://images-assets…
It disappoints me greatly they're not raw :(
Raw is slightly more difficult to fake. People are more likely to catch it.
Re: Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth
#419Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you had routine space travel, you would be upset that you can't time travel.
Well first he'd be sad about only being able to travel the solar system because everything else is so far away.
Late reply but about the above comment well there is no need for space travel to be sad not having time travel. I am not actually sad I don't have time travel but have definitely day dreamed many times about how incredible it would be to have such a power. Not to change the past but to just go back and witness events. But I don't believe that would ever be possible so like to think about it but not saddened about it.
As for being sad about not leaving the solar system well it's about the same as time travel. I have already accepted the fact that humans will likely never get very far from earth without some discovery that goes against everything we know like a way to bend space or travel many times faster then the speed of light.
I just want to float in space and look back on earth and feel the profound sense others who have done so describe. Cheers