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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: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

I want to point out that this night-side shot was impossible the last time we had people up there. This was taken on a Nikon D5 (arguably the best low-light DSLR...ever) at ISO 51200. Apollo went up there with 160-speed color film. This is a first.

And he didn't even use the flash.

Do you think it may have been a joke?