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also (cpu heavy) www.nasa.gov/missions/art...

IM WAVING! HI GUYS IM WAVING!!!

Aurora Australis!

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Why didn't they open the window to take the picture? Rookie photog mistake ;)

Attention NASA, please retitle Hello Earth and play Kate Bush song with it

Yes, thank you. I was confused originally because the Sahara is so much brighter than the rest of Africa, so I didn't perceive the full shape.

Dang! Small wonder I couldn't figure it out!@

The Artemis crew managed to capture the lights of the city state of Atlantis in the center of the image (Ducks out before the conspiracy theorists emerge from the woodwork)

Not used to seeing Earth from this angle. Thanks for being our tour guide by proxy!

Oh, wow, you can see just how thin the atmosphere is!

The continent, you mean? That’s the north part of Africa

I think it’s just image noise

What is the light bloom in almost the dead center of the Earth, South west of Africa? Is that just particularly bright clouds?

Oh that's neat. I was wondering what the extended haze to the lower right was.

Gibraltar is where you think it is, but Africa stretches away from it toward the top right (Cape Town is near 12 o'clock). The Iberian side is on the bottom left, so the further you go north from Gibraltar, the further you go bottom-left.

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Thank you so much for these details I surely would have missed if they had not been pointed out to me! Each detail makes the image more amazing!

Thanks for the context ✨🙏🏽🥰 love to understand a bit more

So Australia really is at the top - we’ve been saying this for years

Thank you. I thought it was probably Venus but was looking for confirmation.

Spacecraft windowframe, most likely

A masterclass in government comms.

Even the planets need ID now! *harumph*

Saw this official NASA post on X that highlights the night-side angle. x.com/nasa/status/...

Go outside on a full moon and nearly nothing is in color. Try to take a photo, and it's all really dark with no colors, even if your ISO is through the roof. I have serious doubts about the veracity of this photo.

Definitely not an angle that you see very often.

It seems the brightness apearing in the Atlantic off the coast of Africa is likely internal reflection from the window of Integrity???

I’m old enough to have used ISO 100 film, chemically processed. A digital sensor running at 51200 is mind bogglingly amazing! Hello future!

Wow, so that's what a lunar solar eclipse looks like! 🌛

Science and art are what gives me hope when nothing else can. Sometimes, once in while, with grit, determination, intellect, cooperation, and a dollop of luck, we can get out of our own way. At our best, humanity's greater angels can defeat our lesser demons, and accomplish miracles.

That's the planet Venus, sitting on top of the zodiacal light pyramid. Surrounded by many stars; the image goes about as deep as the dark-adapted human eye.

Venus!

terrestrial eclipse?

You can even see the northen lights over the North Pole.

It's so refreshing to see a figure of the Earth correctly oriented with south slightly to the right of up Sorry my brain is just in a silly place right now Really did take a while to mentally orient this and figure out what I was looking at though, even with the hint about Spain

Mejor no miramos la luna mientras los americanos sigan ahí! La Isa Mayor és fantástica !

A screenshot from about 8 PM Eastern last night. You can see that plume of clouds off Guyana (not Venezuela, I had to look again) in the lower right of this north-down picture or the upper left if you turn it north-up.

Speaking about Venezuela, I wonder if the storms on the Maracaibo lake might be visible that far away...

EXIF data time says 2026:04:03 00:27:39.

Omg, the most popular post I've *ever* made on social media and theres a typo!! Argh!

Exactly Chris!

Doesn't it just!

If we could defy gravity and walk directly toward space the distance before we ran out of air to breathe would be about the same as the distance as the nearest outlet mall.

Puts it into pretty sharp relief doesn't it? Just how precarious it is

Love this

Makes you wonder why the boffins at NASA keep puncturing it with their little rockets.

Using the same photo as reference, it's less than one Buenos Aires thick

I can see the Kámán line from here!

I agree, it is frightening!

I've heard it compared to the skin on the apple.

It's all about perspective. Luckily for us the size of the atmosphere is still huge it's barely comprehensible to human brains.

Thank you ✨🙏✨

Thank you, Katie!

So this astronauts must be the first people who saw a live Aurora Borealis and Australis at the same time! Although since this was a night side picture, I assume the Astronaut eyes do not see it this bright?

The Blue Marble II: Electric Boogaloo

Once I figured out that north was down-ish it was a lot easier for me to locate landmarks.

Per my last stupid question: The other shot with the white blob at 330 Degrees is the same shot as before, except it is rotated 18 Degrees. Yikes. So much for my Spherical Trig classes.

Nix my previous question. I can't do math anymore. So what is that white blob down there at 150 Degrees? Just saw a different shot where the white blob is at 330 Degrees. So it's a persistent feature.

What is that white blob down there at 65 Degrees? I've seen it in other photos.

Mine, too, after living in the house for a year. He truly believed in making the world better, and was willing to contemplate weird ideas to get there.

OK, that's on my bucket list.

This is the sort of thread that makes bluesky worthwhile!

Looks flat

so pretty

Is it that the (earth-eclipsed) sun is in such a position that this is enough of a 'Sunlit crescent earth' for any 'Atmospheric sunset' colour to be drowned out perhaps?

Breathtakingly gorgeous 🌍 💙

Or it's a lunar eclipse with a spaceship instead of the moon. Spaceship eclipse.

you can see Africa more than Europe there, but sure Spain and Portugal's city lights looks cool

People are very short-sighted and have almost no imagination. This causes all sorts of other problems as well.

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Ahhh. That actually explains why the blue of the ocean is so muted. 👍 I was wondering about that. Still a spectacular photo. 😍

Perfect planet

🤮 NASA was seized by elon musk like maga has done to America

Awesome pic

Very cool!

I can’t believe I’m in this picture!!

That’s part of North Africa and west Africa I am seeing, isn’t it?

Stunning. Especially the auroras/aurorae. Can't wait for more! I read through ALL the responses. Not a SINGLE flat-earther to be found! 😜🤪🤔

The confused person would be me. T Y

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Spain and Portugal?

What an amazing picture! Is it stars or satellites or both that are visible in the background?

Awesome!!! Thank you!!!

Reflection of the moon in the ocean, in the South Atlantic near St. Helena?

The fact that this is Earth in moonlight explains the dreamy quality of this image. So many details to see but all very beautiful. Aurora, an eclipsed sun glow, city lights. Wow.

Aurorae at both poles. And that oh-so-narrow band of precious atmosphere...

Would this be a terra eclipse?