@NASA NASA photo posted on April 6, 2026, before it was removed from X. Exposure increased to 100% using Photoshop.
NASA photo posted on April 6, 2026, after it was reposted on X. Exposure increased to 100% using Photoshop.
One last look at Earth before we reach the Moon.
This view of the Earth was captured on April 5, the fourth day of the Artemis II mission, from inside the Orion spacecraft. The four astronauts will reach their closest approach of the Moon tomorrow, April 6.
Today's daily planning conference began with the Artemis II crew awarding @CSA_ASC astronaut @Astro_Jeremy with a gold astronaut pin to commemorate his first spaceflight, per NASA tradition.
@Zavixal@NASAArtemis@csa_asc@Astro_Jeremy On Earth we have reference points to compare the moon to, like trees, houses, etc. In space there's just stars and in times of no proper exposure *which pretty much makes the stars invisible* there's quite literally no reference point.
@oh_womp@NASAArtemis@csa_asc@Astro_Jeremy No shit?? The point is on earth when we see a full moon, at times the moon looks very large. Yet these astronauts are 50% close and the moon looks tiny.
@DoofisMannfred@Se7enthSensei@OneDrive_@CryptoWhale Yeahhhh he did the same thing to me lol
You know, theres a very common theme amongst these conspiracy theorists. If you back up with proper evidence and it destroys their worldview, they just block you and ignore haha
🚨 A viral video of an Artemis 2 interview has been doing the rounds on X showing an apparent "blue screen" chromakey text glitch. However it is NOT present in the original.
See original left below and "Viral" video inset right 👇
Source (from 4:20) youtube.com/watch?v=XWBtfv…
@Kickstart80@TraceyRighton@NASA@Astro_Christina@astro_reid "half the world" where do you think we're looking at half the world lol, and also this was over the arctic, look at sentinel-1a's path please. White ice + white clouds = white taking up the fov!
@Kickstart80@TraceyRighton@NASA@Astro_Christina@astro_reid Theyre also facing the sun lit side the entire video, so to keep the 60fps or whatever theyre at they have to keep a certain ISO/shutter speed, at those settings and no grain assume the ISO is low, so city lights would be extremely dull, as well the vid is pretty low res.
@Kickstart80@TraceyRighton@NASA@Astro_Christina@astro_reid No you just dont understand how cameras work, and you didn't even do research.
The camera isnt even viewing to close a quarter of the world's surface. They're over the atlantic ocean at this time
Its a live stream with a bright object, you have to adjust your exposure as such.
@Kickstart80@TraceyRighton@NASA@Astro_Christina@astro_reid Did you ever realize that the 2nd image is like 20 minutes later, and another angle.
And also, where do you see no clouds lol, theres clouds in both images, the 2nd image is going over the arctic because of how sentinel orbits us. Notice what it goes over haha, nice try though!
@MaxQHellcat@Se7enthSensei@iheartmindy No yeah im supporting you haha, its just funny that when people view the metadata theyre like OMG FAKE BECAUSE PHOTOSHOP!!! But theres a history_parameter in there that shows it was just directly converted in lightroom to a jpeg from that RAW
aka every pro photographer
How is the moon completely full from "space" when the Full Moon was 4 days ago?
It's got to be the same angle, because they're still showing us the only side we can see from Earth.🧐