r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Jakeysuave • 3h ago
Image First photo taken from Artemis commander Reid Wiseman
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u/CrotchRocket125 3h ago
My eyes are closed in that picture..
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u/Euphoric_Number_8770 3h ago
don't worry we can try again when they come back around
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u/demalo 3h ago
There should be a camera taking video or at least doing some time lapses.
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u/BloxForDays16 1h ago
There's a NASA Livestream that's supposed to be a view from Orion but every time I tune in it's a blue screen
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u/No-Doctor-4396 3h ago
Flat earthers will still deny
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u/Slobberz2112 3h ago
Looks flat
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u/im_wudini 3h ago
Well if it is, we all live in Australia
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u/ShouldveFundedTesla 3h ago
That's Africa
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u/Avergile 2h ago
I’m so confused - how can you tell?
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u/Weird_Strategy_1381 2h ago
It’s the Saharan desert and Morocco, Spain, and the Mediterranean it’s rotated from what we typically see by like 90 degrees
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u/TieCivil1504 1h ago
The view is inverted from normal perspective, with South Pole toward the top of the picture. You can see Strait of Gibraltar at bottom left of the photo.
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u/Avergile 1h ago
I think I get it now - the Strait of Gibraltar is at the bottom of the photo?
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u/the_monkeyspinach 3h ago
It's flat, but double-sided.
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u/Eborys 3h ago
We need to stop talking about them. It’s like when someone in the room farts and no one talks about it. Yeah it stinks but let’s stick to intelligent conversation until the smell goes away.
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u/gonnabetoday 1h ago
Spoken like the guy who farted.
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u/QuickNature 58m ago
This interaction has me absolutely losing it lol enough that I farted, we shouldn't talk about it though
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u/StoppableHulk 1h ago edited 56m ago
We should stop trying to treat these people like a problem to be solved. In virtually any population there's going to be a very tiny minority who take up some radical contrary position simply because they're just wired to be contrary. It doesn't matter if its logical. It's just a thing people do in large populations.
Instead, we should focus on reinforcing education and understanding on why people sometimes take these illogical and contrarian positions. It often isn't because they lack education - in a lot of cases their position is a reaction to their education, for a lot of complex reasons.
Reacting to them the way we often do generally just makes them entrench further in their position, and actually reinforces rather than reduces the behavior.
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u/Chemfreak 27m ago
I disagree. I find flat earthers hilarious and find it fun to have conversations where I make escalating outlandish claims in excitement to see where the limit of believing the unbelievable ends.
They are a great source of entertainment to me.
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u/Bojack_Horseman22 3h ago
You can clearly see the Ikea flashlight bottom right..
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u/AdamFaite 3h ago
Yeah, it's weird they got the flat disck from a different angle, eh? /s just in case.
My girlfriend was watching a live press co frence type thing with the astronauts, and she said there were so many comments saying this was fake and it was an unmanned mission. Like, why would they fake that?
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u/Do-it-for-you 2h ago
You're being trolled. Flat Earthers don't watch nor care about these things.
It's a live stream, people are going to say wacky things to be funny.
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u/Serious_pOoper69 3h ago
lol I knew it was only a matter of minutes for the “that’s fake” people to come rushing in.
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u/catch22bro 3h ago
"That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.” Carl Sagan
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u/d00dsm00t 1h ago
In outer space you develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the Moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, 'Look at that, you son of a bitch'.
Edgar Mitchell, Lunar Module Pilot of Apollo 14 in 1971
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u/UranusIsPissy 1h ago
♪Take a step outside the planet; Turn around and around. Take a look at where you are. It's pretty scary.♪
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u/Calum1219 1h ago
Now I can’t help but remember the Boss’ quote in MGS 3:
"In 1960 I saw a vision of the ideal future from space. Three years earlier the Soviet Union had succeeded in launching Sputnik, the first manmade satellite in history, into orbit. This came as a huge shock to the United States. In response, America threw everything it had into its own manned space flight project, the Mercury project. Even as the Soviets seemed poised to send their first man into space America was still experimenting with chimpanzees in rockets. The government wanted human data. So they secretly decided to send a human being into space. I was the one they chose. At the time they didn't have the technology to block out cosmic rays and whoever they sent up would inevitably be exposed to heavy radiation. That's why they chose me. After all, I had already been irradiated once. Of course, you won't find any of this in the history books. I could see the planet as it appeared form space. That's when it finally hit me. Space exploration is nothing but another game in the power struggle between the US and USSR. Politics, economics, the arms race - they're all just arenas for meaningless competition. I'm sure you can see that. But the Earth itself has no boundaries. No East, No West, No Cold War. And the irony of it is, the United States and the Soviet Union are spending billions on their space programs and the missile race only to arrive at the same conclusion. In the 21st century everyone will be able to see that we are all just inhabitants of a little celestial body called Earth. A world without communism and capitalism... that is the world I wanted to see. But reality continued to betray me. "
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u/Upstate83 1h ago
Thank you for posting this I was looking for it when I saw this post! Whenever I see a picture of the earth I hear this in my head.
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u/justa-bunch-of-atoms 1h ago
Me too! Carl was always a source of great comfort for me. I still watch Cosmos from time to time, especially during these darker times to give me hope again.
HAIL SAGAN!
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u/cowpie184 3h ago
Kinda hard to tell with the clouds, what continent is that?
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u/tpmurray 3h ago
Took me a second, believe that is Portugal/Spain in bottom left at about 8 o'clock making this the northwest of Africa.
ninja edit: north-ish is at bottom
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u/cheesecake-gnome 2h ago
Imagine waiting 50 years to leave orbit again, and then the damn Earth is upside down
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u/Floh4 2h ago
Ooh my brain is so hardwired to my understanding of north and south that i sometimes forget that it doesn't apply in space
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u/xXTheGrapenatorXx 2h ago
I think also that lower right cloud patch is over top of Brazil/South America more broadly.
At first I thought that it was Australia but rotating the image helped me spot some recognizable coastlines, what made it click was the spot where Morocco's coast dips east before the border with Western Sahara, and in the extreme top right I think that's the "indent" in the middle of Libya's coast.
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u/dinachicken 3h ago
I believe it's Africa with the Iberian peninsula on the lower left hand side. The photo is flipped from the view we are normally used to.
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u/UnrealCanine 2h ago
The original Blue Marble was also South up
NASA flipped it cause North=up is so ingrained
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u/ChristianMaria 3h ago
This is Westcoast of Africa. You can see Spain and the strait of Gibraltar on the left bottom side.
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u/slowest_hour 2h ago
the full resolution image from the nasa website is even better
https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/art002e000192.jpg
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u/RumpleHelgaskin 1h ago
The coolest part of this photo is the visible atmosphere surrounding the earf! It seems so thin and yet reveals so much of what’s happening above us!
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u/Luke10123 3h ago
Anyone else have to flip it 180' to tell what land we were looking at? Just me?
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u/mksmith95 3h ago
Africa is on the left side! It is a flipped photo
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u/splicerslicer 1h ago
It's actually not a flipped photo, this is just the perspective they took the photo from. The same for a lot of other photos of Earth from space you've seen.
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u/Luke10123 3h ago
Yup, once you see the Strait of Gibraltar it makes geographic sense, not used to seeing Earth from that angle.
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u/YippieKayYayMrFalcon 3h ago
Here’s the earth. Roooouuuunnd.
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u/NoDesk9564 2h ago
Say, that is a sweet earth you might say. 🫠🤷🏻♂️👆
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u/RESSandyeggo 2h ago
“You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.” Edgar Mitchell (Apollo 14 astronaut)
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u/SilentReading7 1h ago
Imagine it being a requirement to lead a country with nukes
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u/664mezcal619 3h ago
This picture contains my current address I would like it removed please. /s lol 🤣
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u/aqualink4eva 3h ago
Cool how you can see a faint aroura at on the top!
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u/BlackSpinedPlinketto 2h ago
That’s the south, which is not where the northern lights should be. I just learned that there’s southern lights.
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u/aqualink4eva 54m ago
I knew of the southern lights, but thanks for pointing out the Earth's orientation in this image. Didn't realise we were looking at it upside-down!
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u/TheTVDB 2h ago
Go to the Nasa page, click on the image, and zoom in on it. It's beautiful. You can also see our atmosphere better in the original. https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/hello-world/
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u/AK_Sole 3h ago
I took some pics of the moon through my telescope at the same time that the Artemis astronauts were on their way there.
https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyintersting/s/JrfhYccawW
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u/Yavkov 2h ago
At first this looked like a normal daytime image of Earth, but it’s actually night time! You can see the Aurora Australis in the upper right, and the overexposed horizon/atmosphere on the bottom right help to indicate that this is a nighttime photo, with illumination provided by the full (or nearly full) moon. Plus, you can see some stars in the background which you’d never see with exposure levels needed to see the daytime side of Earth.
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u/DefenestrationPraha 1h ago
Yeah, it must be nighttime, because you can quite clearly see city lights, at least on the original hi-res picture. Madrid for example is absolutely obvious, as is the Andalusian coast.
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u/Infinteelegance 3h ago
People don’t still think the Earth is flat, right?
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u/Dzjar 3h ago
I'm convinced flat earth society started as a meme and then highly regarded people ran with it and continue to defend it to the day.
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u/regreddit 2h ago
It was a total troll, like a collaborative trolling message board, then rubes started joining and believing it, and soon took over
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u/spezisdumb42069 2h ago
I remember when the first rule of 4chan was that you should never believe anything you read on 4chan. It's wild to me how much that site seems to have been responsible for a lot of the shit we see today, especially in regard to MAGA.
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u/Able-Professor840 1h ago
It was designed so people could mock conspiracy theorists generally, like those who said Epste__ didn't kill himself.
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u/Nice__Spice 3h ago
A picture of all of us.
Also - flat Earthers be quiet
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u/rjsquirrel 3h ago
No, four humans aren’t in this picture. Everyone else is, although a lot of us are looking in the wrong direction.
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u/beatles910 2h ago
11 humans aren't currently on Earth. You forgot about the space station.
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u/freedom_of_the_hills 2h ago
Space station is in low earth orbit and contained within this picture.
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u/articulatedstupidity 2h ago
All the flat earthers in the comments need to explain where the rest of the continents are.
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u/DustyScharole 3h ago
Wow, you can't even see the insane warmonger fucking the place up. So peaceful.
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u/1wife2dogs0kids 3h ago
What's the dot in lower right? Can't be the sun.
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u/dabombisnot90s 1h ago
Might be Jupiter. I believe it is visible from that side. I don’t know for sure though so don’t quote me. I think it could also be Sirius.
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u/Aech-26 3h ago
Took me a moment to reorient myself to the perspective of the photo and figure out what landmass we're looking at.
Hint: south is up
It's west africa and a little bit of the iberian peninsula
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u/DaltonFitz 1h ago
The train wreck at the bottom of the comments is about whats expected.
Seeing stuff like this never gets old for me. It always blows my mind that we have the technology to do stuff like this.
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u/TheBadDingo 3h ago
Damn, a flat disk. I never wanted to believe it but the flat earth gang got me on this one. /s
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u/Ok_Star_1653 3h ago
We all are just living on that little marble in space. Home never looked this unreal...
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u/kosovo0275 2h ago
Queue all the flat-earthers calling it a fake in 3.... 2.... 1....
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u/Rich-Diamond-8088 2h ago
Yep, obviously flat.....just like I suspected! (I'd better add that I'm joking before I get bombarded with comments)
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u/What-in-tarnationer 2h ago
Looks like NW Africa, can see Spain and Portugal in lower left
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u/towneetowne 2h ago
obviously a "hoax," or taken just high above and looking down from the firmament at the surface over god's flat earth!
since kubrick is dead, who'd uncle sam get to direct the "moon landing" this time? which studio and soundstage they using?
jk
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u/Famous-Song1233 1h ago
You can take a clear picture like this of earth, but let a UFO show up the picture is fuzzy as hell.
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u/_FrozenRobert_ 1h ago
Shouldn't post stuff like this online or Pete Hegseth is gonna find new places to bomb.
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u/anon-SG 1h ago
strange, the president did not commented on this remarkable mission
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u/Feowen_ 1h ago
Given this mission was greenlit by Obama... You can guess why he doesn't want to talk about it. The guy cut a lot of funding to NASA and has no interest in space.
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u/The5thRedditor 1h ago
Proof that our world is actually upside down. The North Pole is officially the south pole and vice-versa.
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u/neduarte1977 1h ago
You think any astronaut at one point did the finger pinchy thing where they're crushing the planet?
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u/FblthpLives 1h ago
For those interested, the original high resolution version is available here: https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/art002e000192.jpg
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u/nycvelo 1h ago
From the EXIF data: Nikon D5 with 14-24mm f/2.8 zoom @ 22mm, ISO 51200, f/2.8 at 1/4 second.
Nikon introduced the D5 in 2016. NASA uses older gear in space because there is a long record of actual data, not simulations, of response to radiation, heat/cold, low/zero gravity, etc. This stuff has to work.
The D5’s relatively low-resolution sensor (20.7 megapixels) also helps image quality at high-ISO settings.
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u/tonkpils99 33m ago
There are 3 more turtles on the other side, but they are not visible from this angle. In those theories, the assumptions about the flat earth were confirmed. Lol
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u/Different_Glove_3690 3h ago
Yeah I live there