"...on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam." 🌎
A photograph of a distant, crescent Earth taken from inside the Orion spacecraft en route toward the Moon on April 3, 2026 #ArtemisII
talking to the blacksmith this morning and a harpy swarm just swooped down and dragged him into the sky. no warning, just snatched him mid sentence. really makes you think
“…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
Even in darkness, we glow.
In this image of Earth taken by the Artemis II crew, we can see the electric lights of human activity. In the lower right, sunlight illuminates the limb of the planet.
That's us! 🌍
The Artemis II crew captured beautiful, high-resolution images of our home planet during their journey to the Moon. As @Astro_Christina put it: "You guys look great."
This is the coolest thing that’s maybe happened in my life time and I know the world is completely shit right now but this makes me want to cry, it’s so beautiful. We put too much trust into rich white men when it’s scientists that we should be looking up to