Dark Side of the Earth: https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/amf-art002e000193/

Hello World: https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/fd02_for-pao/

On images-assets.nasa.gov, we can find the 5567x3712 resolution versions of these pictures:

Dark Side of the Earth: https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e000193/art002e00...

Hello World: https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e000192/art002e00...

The launch, shot on a Nintendo 3DS.

For those with a gen z-like retro tech streak.

Do you understand ISO?

It took me 21 years...

https://youtu.be/ZWSvHBG7X0w

This video explains how ISO is very different to what most people imagine, and how you can use this knowledge to take less noisy photos.

We are not standing on earth looking up at the stars.

We are being held by earth as we look down into an infinite abyss of death.

Everything we are depends on that fragile bubble holding us.

I'm sad not alive at a time like Cowboy Bebop oh well, this is a great pic, overview effect

The exif includes time, but not time zone. They are not quite at the moon, and Lunar Time is under active development but not official. Also clocks tick slower under the moon's weaker gravity. (Or is it faster?)

Anyway, what time was this taken?

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260404.html

Surely our camera gear is exponentially better now? Is the reason for the new image being ‘murkier’ due to light, pollution or something else?

https://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/

A new hello.jpg?

Look again at that dot. 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.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

https://www.rxjourney.net/30-things-i-know

> hey, i'm in a picture with all my friends!

Because fundamentally it is a large object illuminated by sunlight.

He is "our people," as far as hacking astrophotography from space. [1]

[0] https://old.reddit.com/user/astro_pettit

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42701645

There is no "up" in space, so that wouldn't be editing the image I feel. The camera just happened to be oriented "upside down".

https://www.nasa.gov/gallery/journey-to-the-moon/

2D midbrains: "It's Africa and Spain, I can tell you because of my superior knowledge of geography! Are you impressed yet"

3D minds of men: "Godspeed you brave soldiers"

4D Galaxy brains: "Israel did 911, all this space shit is a front for making bombs and rockets, nobody knows where we came from or what happens when we die"

if anything in life gives me pleasure is I have experienced life, with its highs and downs on this little speck.

just the lowest hanging fruit that had been a second class citizen to the marvel of having an extraterrestrial angle to begin with

Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. — Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994

No it didn't. That would be catastrophic and likely fatal. They are going to the Moon, which is also in Earth orbit.

Nasa images page is useless. Government work.