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This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew.

Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right.

Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

// That's home. That's us.

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Alternative references of better image quality mentioned in comments by @baguette@piefed.social:
- https://images.nasa.gov/details/art002e000192;
- https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e000192/art002e000192~orig.jpg [5568 x 3712]

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[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 14 points 4 weeks ago

Looks pretty fake to me, AI definitely made it, and the earth is definitely flat and square despite this.

[-] zerobot@lemmy.wtf 10 points 4 weeks ago

looks pretty flat though,must be real

[-] 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 weeks ago

and now i am confused, can you two just make up your mind and tell me what to think? damn it...

[-] zerobot@lemmy.wtf 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)
[-] bold_omi@lemmy.today 3 points 4 weeks ago
[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago
[-] zerobot@lemmy.wtf 3 points 4 weeks ago
[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)
[-] bold_omi@lemmy.today 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)
[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Kotlin, but really that's a common string thing so might be the same in many languages.

[-] bold_omi@lemmy.today 1 points 3 weeks ago

Huh. Well at least you didn't swear.

[-] imjustmsk@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 weeks ago

I don't know it looks flat enough to me? 

[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

Sorry it was more a comment on how it doesn't look square.

[-] imjustmsk@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 weeks ago

It so funny to see  a bunch of idiots fighting over the shape of earth when its obviously not flat. 

(The image i

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s not clanker generated) 

[-] uhmbah@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 weeks ago

This should be sent to flat earthers every time they post...

[-] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

The world is flat and circular. This pic proves it.

[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

They probably used some fancy lens to make it look circular its definitely a square.

this post was submitted on 03 Apr 2026
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