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More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

Karen James

@kejames.bsky.social

3 Apr

Do we think that bright spot right in the middle is the reflection of the Moon off the Atlantic?

Katie Mack

@astrokatie.com

I’ve been assuming it was glare from the window or camera

3/4/26, 4:09 pm0 reposts18 likes

Ahhh, yeah. Thanks.

@philplait.bsky.social

Yeah me too.

It was.

We were supposed to have a shroud for the D5. I think we do just haven’t the need to confirm. They were working on a makeshift shroud for the z9 last night.