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This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. (lemmy.world)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/space@mander.xyz
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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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[–] 3 points 7 months ago (3 children)

The Overview Effect (a supposed increase in wisdom from simply seeing your home planet from far away) is mostly a distraction from solving the problems of deciding who gets to own stuff in space and how do we as a society mitigate the risk of autocrats hurling extinction-level rocks at one another for their own personal short term profit.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Wait no, I thought about it more and this is the lamest thing I have ever seen online

    Like bro it's a distraction for as long as you look at the picture, sure. But can you not take 10 seconds to admire the beauty of the world?

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