2026-04-04 19:57 UTC
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@human3500@ottawa.place 2026-04-04 20:09
@pfsmet and we're doing all we can to further thin that protective layer as fast as possible #Artemis #optics #Earth #atmosphere
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@hmallett@toot.wales 2026-04-04 20:55
@pfsmet so the sun, reflecting off the moon, is bright enough to illuminate Earth like that? I wouldn’t have expected that.
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@gcvsa@mstdn.plus 2026-04-04 20:55
@pfsmet Why did the author of this image feel the need to rotate the orientation? There's no "up" in space except for "out of the local gravity well".
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@pabrod@mastodon.social 2026-04-04 21:20
@pfsmet Poor Portugal. Everybody forgets about Portugal 😜
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@ZenHeathen@beige.party 2026-04-04 21:26
@pfsmet Not moonglint. It's the cabin lights reflected in the window.
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@Vluciamonteirop@mastodon.social 2026-04-04 21:39
The Sahara is huge!
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@argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-04-04 22:18
@pfsmet If this is the night side of Earth, lit only by moonlight and presumably photographed in long exposure, shouldn't the city lights be much brighter than this? Or are city lights a lot less visible from orbit than I've been led to believe? 😵💫
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@behrangsa@mastodon.social 2026-04-04 22:26
@pfsmet to be honest, I have not seen it even once. It's just like all other photos of the Earth. The exciting part is the up close photos from the Moon.
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@russss@chaos.social 2026-04-04 22:41
@pfsmet Nice! I think the brighter reflection in the middle of the image is a reflection from inside the spacecraft, but there is another reflection next to it which is the moon reflecting off the sea
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@benjistokman@mast.benstokman.me 2026-04-04 23:16
@pfsmet it is kind of amazing how thin Earth's atmosphere is.
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@McWabbit@tenforward.social 2026-04-04 23:21
@pfsmet Every time a picture of the Earth from the Artemis is shown on my timeline, my thoughts are that we should get rid of billionaires, the power of fossil fuel industries and dictators. Our world should not be ruled and ruined by these madmen.
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@Tzekos@mastodon.social 2026-04-05 01:31
@pfsmet It's so beautiful
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@JohnJBurnsIII@kzoo.to 2026-04-05 02:33
@pfsmet And... all but 4 humans in all of time, exist(ed) in this picture.
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@donelias@mastodon.cr 2026-04-05 04:54
@pfsmet some people really really need the north to be up
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@Skeptiker@social.tchncs.de 2026-04-05 05:11
@pfsmet please note that you rotated the original image.
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@plecotus@mstdn.social 2026-04-05 09:21
@pfsmet thank you for the annotations! Even if the image looks spectacular, this view itself is misleading in my eyes, as Earth isn’t so bright at night. The only light sources are at this point stars, the Moon, and light from the sun (in various ways), airglow and artificial light from the ground - I do like this image with a more natural view more: https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/amf-art002e000193/
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@eifelkiwi@bonn.social 2026-04-05 10:08
@pfsmet and except for 4 out of more than 8 billion individuals, the whole of humanity is in this picture. As is every animal, every plant and every drop of water.
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@Centretowner@urbanists.social 2026-04-05 12:38
@pfsmet fwiw I hadn't seen this yet. Thank you for sharing it!
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@WaardRichard@social.edu.nl 2026-04-05 12:51
@pfsmet Look at how thin and fragile earth’s atmosphere is. ⚠️