Earthshine.
Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch captured this video of Earth outside the windows of the Orion spacecraft during the second flight day of the mission. Orion was roughly 33,800 miles (54,500 km) away from Earth when @Astro_Christina took this video.
Only one chance in this lifetime…
Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him.
I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.
We see our home planet as a whole, lit up in spectacular blues and browns. A green aurora even lights up the atmosphere. That's us, together, watching as our astronauts make their journey to the Moon.
Tanzania's Mt Kilimanjaro, among the clouds over East Africa. Photographed in space from the ISS, and on Earth from Amboseli National Park with National Geographic's @BabakTafreshi
This marvelous view shows Mexico City in 1862 and the sketch was produced from a hot-air balloon. We see mountains on the horizon, individual buildings, parks and roads. Source features a zoomable high-res version: https://t.co/nuSfK2iLOt
Jodie Foster traveling to the Vega star system, 26 light years from Earth, in Contact. Cosmic wonder treated with seriousness, restraint, and awe.
God, this movie is so good.
Cross Section of a Roman Road (Photo Credit: Jim Paton via Flickr)- In Fuenterroble (Via de la Plata, Spain) a cross-section of a Calzada Romana, or Roman road, has been opened to show how the roads were constructed by the Roman engineers.
Paris (France) from 1265 to 2015 through one building. 750 Years in Paris (France) — artwork by Vincent Mahé. It’s from his wordless graphic book “750 Years in Paris” (Nobrow, 2015), Nobrow Press.
Apollo 11 lifted off July 16, 1969, to begin its history-making journey. Hundreds of millions of people around the world watched over the next days as Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins accomplished the goal of landing a man on the Moon by the end of the decade.