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Images pulled from: https://images.nasa.gov/
AdroitCudgel
CGI produces better imagery!
MichaelHatch
Yes. Yes, you can.
Chanteloup
These actually made me a bit sad because it's the first time I see pics of the Moon at this quality and it kinda triggered my triptophobia :-(
Travelcedric
https://flic.kr/ps/sv14h
Large, hi-res versions of these photos are at the above link
TheVillageGrouch9000
https://www.nasa.gov/gallery/lunar-flyby/
danielnovember1960
Much appreciated!!
chackstar
#16 solar eclipse glasses!
ChazzK
SEVERAL of these are going to be "inspiring" sci-fi/horror movie posters for decades.
backrideup9
https://media2.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1dHdjdzF4ZDVxcGZuOG82aTljYWRraTFpMW1odGxmejNydXBlcnIzbSZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/PjRardeWVvHVK/200w.webp Dear Artemis II crew :
bortlp
Love the dollar store paper framed solar glasses. I get it's to keep weight down and no reason to spend a lot on NASA engineering for special ones. I just still find it amusing.
Blackfinity
sacrosanctt
They're 3D glasses. Space is in 4D. Humans need to reduce by 1D to be able to see in space. Everyone knows this. It's literally science.
DaisyfromDownunder
It still took 50 years for Artemeis, a female god, to catch up and beat what Apollo, a male god, accomplished.
GrandmaSlappy
I'd like to go live there
pettingmycatwhileipoo
I was hoping someone would do this! Thank you so much @OP! Awesome stuff.
19marcurious57
It was a historic moment: During their flight in the Orion capsule past the far side of the moon, the crew also reached an estimated distance of 252,756 miles from Trump, breaking the Apollo 13 record for the furthest distance humans have ever traveled in space. Lucky Fuckers.
cytherians
With AI media in abundance, one would think these are all AI generated. But they're not. These are authentic photos.
In 1968, the Apollo 8 mission brought us the iconic "Earthrise" photo that became a legend. And now we have the follow-up in 4k resolution!
rydecker
no. I just can't see how this is worth $92T when there are so many important, low-hanging-fruit issues to take care of
fubizdaddie
For not being very good with numbers, you sure aren't very good with understanding. Side note, the actual real percentage of the budget allocated to this wouldn't piss you off if military spending didn't eat up so much of the rest. Learn to see the bigger picture.
throwawaygizmo
Scientists, engineers, and astronauts aren't why the world is shit. You could erase NASA's entire budget (which is 0.35% percent of all federal funding), and it wouldn't make a dent in providing food for those who need food, homes for the homeless, and stopping war. Perhaps you should focus your attention on the people that deserve your hate. The bastards that are pro-war, pro-cruelty, pro-stupidity. None of which NASA is I might add.
FraudulentPepsi
Well, not quite. It's about $92 billion. 1/60th of the federal budget.
JimiFloyd2
DEVO
Blackfinity
It's interesting how the photos make the Earth look so close to the moon when in fact all the other planets (minus Saturn's rings) could fit between the Earth and moon.
KawaiiInari
How wonderful that we are capable of such photos. Beautiful!
gtotherizzle
Fucking yeah!
SalmonMax
It's oddly theraputic to see we're not the only ball of rock in space. The moon might not have life on it, but there's a crisp purity to its existence that's hard for me to articulate. It's older than we are, and it will be here after we're gone. I wonder who will look up at it then?
Zeddicuszull
I like how the nerds back in the day had no fucking clue if the surface of the moon was an actual surface or was dozens of feet of moon dust. Which would have had made any lunar landing really bad for the astronauts but really fun to watch the lander just blow up a huge dust cloud and sink into a hole made by its thrusters.
danielnovember1960
Will someone tell me how to save these to favorites?
LitterBoxKing
Use the heart icon near the upvote/downvote arrows.
PaperinoVB
cytherians
Better yet, save them to your own folder. The 3 dots menu to the right.
Better still, go to the NASA website and download high resolution photos.
https://www.nasa.gov/mission/artemis-ii/
icouldntthinkofabetterusername2
These really show how dark the moon surface is compared to the earth.
LeftRightThere
My phone camera shows me how small the moon is when I thought it looked giant in the sky
TyrannusEquus
This is no dark side in the moon really, matter of fact its all dark.
endrega
The moon is only about as reflective as asphalt.
MyVirginityIsGrowingBack
Flat Earthers...
BonkyMcSignFace
https://youtu.be/NuesVbR-hF0?si=GKpJr_jerEqwfO-j
ChazzK
"Man, can you believe people are buying this CGI stuff? I mean yesterday they showed a picture of the Earth fully lit, and now it's SHADOWED! Come on!!!"
cytherians
Oh, I hope they're all having pissing-pants meltdowns right now.
BonkyMcSignFace
They are but not for being shown the truth. I watched a Dan the science man video review a flat earther watch along of the launch, and these two idiot hosts were flabbergasted at all of the edits and cuts during the launch and were giddy with the sheer audacity of the continued lies and fabrications of NASA, and even speculated that the rocket would explode since it’s all a big hoax and then Iran would be blamed. https://youtu.be/NuesVbR-hF0?si=GKpJr_jerEqwfO-j
canyouflyyousucker
You'd think that, but 99.9% of them are still saying "fake". You could take these MFs to the moon and back and they would still say they were drugged or something. They are legitimately dumb and a plague on mankind
MantisTobagganMD
Yea, the YouTube livestream comment section was depressing to watch. I'm sure a lot of the nonsense was trolls, but still...some of it was real. And that is really sad.
MeisterKleister
Ye, I recently read "The Three Christs of Ypsilanti", a real life case study of three mental patients who all thought they were Jesus put into group therapy. They came up with ad hoc bullshit explanations for literally anything that contradicted their delusion. Sounded exactly like the conspiracy theorists I heard.
RabbitMilkIsAlwaysFresh
One thing I love about these most is that the area captured by the earth photos is the closest we've come to having all of humanity photographed at once, but there are still four people not included.
Optodata
During Apollo 11, Michael Collins took a photo above the moon that showed the returning lunar lander and Earth behind it, so every single person alive except for him was in that pic
RabbitMilkIsAlwaysFresh
Oh! Even better. I was gauging it off the full crew complement vs. world population, but I completely forgot they each had their own cameras. That is, indeed, a spectacular fact!