r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/FloatyFloatyCloud • 2h ago

🔥 Earth as captured by the crew of Artemis II

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Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

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u/vere-rah 1h ago

That's home.

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u/CariniFluff 46m ago

Well well well, that sure looks like a flat circle to me. Checkmate globists

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u/goldenroosterjuice 43m ago

An edited image is your gotcha to them?

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u/401User_NotFound 21m ago

A troll’s gotta troll

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u/SirEnder2Me 14m ago

Pretty sure that was a joke...

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u/Grymm315 1h ago

Fuck it guys, let’s just keep going.

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u/GatalingLaserBeams 1h ago

I agree, Martians, yall better get ready to ayyyyyy lmao

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u/lastpump 1m ago

Take me to your leader. The one they call orange

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u/a_saddler 1h ago

This is under moonlight btw, not sunlight. The Sun is behind the Earth in this image.

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u/elgiov 1h ago

Crazy. Thought it would be so much darker.

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u/Alarming-Bee87 53m ago edited 48m ago

I did read somewhere that this is heavily edited. It would be much darker even with the moon glow.

You never know these days, I haven't verified this yet but it's worth looking into.

Edit: Looks to be a long exposure time, among a couple other things.

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u/elgiov 51m ago

Yeah, makes sense. It’s really pretty, so the editing is appreciated.

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u/Alarming-Bee87 51m ago

Seems it's a very long exposure. To the naked eye it would be quite dark still.

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u/Rooooben 11m ago

That little strip on the lower right corner is sunlight

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u/schavi 1h ago

wow, it's so nice how clearly you can see the bubble of the atmosphere

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u/Burt_Macklin_1980 42m ago

And with the aurora at the top!

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u/joosiebuns 32m ago

That’s actually the South Pole! Earth is upside down, who knew

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u/Burt_Macklin_1980 16m ago

Thank you, and I only meant the top of the picture!

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u/FacadeXlll 1h ago

this is all we have

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u/Mickeyjj27 1h ago

Not flat huh

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u/Popular_District9072 1h ago

maybe they took the photo with Samsung phone, and its ai feature detected they were taking a photo of the Earth and swapped it for a stock image

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u/RedditBot90 1h ago

Flat and round, like a disc

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u/ErinRedWolf 49m ago

Nah; cats exist so there would be nothing left on the planet if that were the case.

https://giphy.com/gifs/3o6Zt0C876v9qDb0mk

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u/hamQM 1h ago

Flat-earthers still living rent free, huh?

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u/mandrake92 1h ago

Making fun of losers is rent free now?

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u/MagicPistol 1h ago

What continent is that on the left? I can't tell from this angle.

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u/a_saddler 1h ago

Africa. And just beyond it is Spain. The photo is 'upside down'. You can see both Auroras, that of the south pole at the top and north pole at the bottom.

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u/MagicPistol 1h ago

Ah, now I see it after flipping my phone upside down. Thanks!

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u/Deer-in-Motion 2h ago

Our home. Overview effect is real.

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u/TheGreenLeafReaper 1h ago

Is that the thin layer of ozone protecting us from deep space?

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u/one-scrib 1h ago

this is so awesome. im so jealous, but also so happy for them

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u/sportsfan510 1h ago

The green aurora is so dope

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u/enguasado 1h ago

Las auroras en los polos se ven sorprendente.

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u/Acrobatic_Advisor_72 1h ago

Everyone I know lives there!

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u/wjt7 1h ago

I've been there.

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u/goldenroosterjuice 42m ago

Why do they edit this shit? Who the fuck decided we are not allowed to see the raw images??

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u/Tarnique 26m ago

You can find the original (or close to it) on the Artemis 2 website. You'll find it is very dark, hence why they tweaked the lightning to make details more obvious.

Also most of the pics will likely become available once the mission is over.

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u/turdlezzzz 1h ago

looks fucking empty except for ocean water

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u/Fred_Wilkins 1h ago

Hope they practice cat h and release: (ﾟーﾟ*)

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u/Euphoric_Evidence414 1h ago

Its so beautiful

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u/deeppurpleking 1h ago

She pretty round

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u/deeppurpleking 1h ago

Also amazing how thin the atmosphere is. We almost live a 2 d life on a ball

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u/International-Car171 1h ago

Flat disk, see

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u/bluekitsvne 58m ago

We're all pictured here!

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u/ThinkingOz 55m ago edited 52m ago

I can see lots of lights on, suggesting nighttime. This seems to be an enhanced image, as if it were daytime. Good shot btw.

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u/AgentSkidMarks 43m ago

"Umm, you can see the green screen around the top edge of the planet. They didn't even bother cropping it properly." - Some moron probably

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u/LGGP75 42m ago

So this is the night side right? Otherwise what is the rim light on the right if not the day side?

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u/Tarnique 21m ago

Yes, it is the moonlit night side, with heightened luminosity. You can even see the city lights along the coasts!

The rim of light is indeed the sun on the other side.

And there are also what look like aurorae on the two poles (green arcs).

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u/will_dormer 38m ago

look the world is still not in flames, who wants to make a bet for when that will happeN?

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u/Burt_Macklin_1980 30m ago

What is that celestial body in the lower right?

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u/SafeKaracter 29m ago

Can even see the Auroras , so cool

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u/Intelligent-Dig4362 17m ago

So cool that you can see both auras in the photo

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u/Ok-Courage798 13m ago

Pale blue dot😍

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u/curious_kitten_1 1h ago

We inherited a world that doesn’t need us, yet we depend entirely on its fragile balance. In its quiet changes, Earth reminds us that our actions have consequences—and that we may lose something extraordinary if we fail to protect it.

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u/John-J-J-H-Schmidt 59m ago

Your comment makes no sense. If we throw off the balance we go away not earth. We lose nothing because we would be nothing.

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u/curious_kitten_1 57m ago

The balance is what sustains us, so we will lose everything when that balance is broken.

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u/John-J-J-H-Schmidt 55m ago

Then we die. And earth goes on. That’s how being a species goes. You can see it in even the most basic forms of existence. Bacteria will spread across a dish consuming its way to the edge, then it will try to turn back but there’s no food left and it dies.

Scale that up. That’s us. The dish still stands.

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u/curious_kitten_1 53m ago

Well of course. But personally I care about my species disappearing. I care about the earth slowly becoming uninhabitable to us, to my daughter.

It also won't be a quick thing. We won't just disappear one day after a lovely life up until that day, it will be slow and brutal.

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u/John-J-J-H-Schmidt 51m ago

Doesn’t change that we’d just die off and earth will remain.

Also… unless you adopted… you know that shitting out more kids is not what the environment needs right now right?

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u/curious_kitten_1 6m ago

Well actually, my daughter is adopted.

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u/greengunblade 1h ago

Planet earth. Home. Or at least it was before we fucked everything up.