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    New high-res image of our home planet from Artemis ll


    New high-res image of our home planet from Artemis ll

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    1. yourfavchoom on

      [**NASA on their website**](https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/hello-world/)

      > NASA astronaut and Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman took this picture of Earth from the Orion spacecraft’s window after completing the translunar injection burn. There are two auroras (top right and bottom left) and zodiacal light (bottom right) is visible as the Earth eclipses the Sun.

      > This and another photo of Earth are the first downlinked images from the Artemis II astronauts. See and hear what the astronauts do with our 24/7 feed.

      **Edit:** added official NASA link

    2. 1320Fastback on

      Look at that atmosphere! Such an amazing photo and makes it perfectly clear how thin it is and how we need to protect it!

    9. roastedchickn_ on

      So we see the Western Africa and the Iberian Peninsula! Oh and we also see Brazil.

    12. Komikaze06 on

      I love seeing the other sides of the planet, one of my favorites is when its like 99% ocean. Just goes to show how lucky we are we have the land we have

    14. musmuscouscous on

      That’s wild how you can see northern lights (aurora borealis) on the north BUT on the south too!! (aurora australis)

    25. BarelyContainedChaos on

      Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,” every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there–on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

      The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

      Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

      The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

      It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.

      — Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994

    27. MendozaLiner on

      We’re so freaking lucky to be alive, given all the probabilities, and these mortherfuckers are destroying everything for some papers with numbers printed on it.

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