#Artemis II lunar flyby images are showing up! 😍

A crescent Earth setting behind the Moon.

April 07, 2026 - 13:23 UTC

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The earth and moon, seen from an infinitesimal pocket of air and warmth hundreds of thousands of miles from home
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Full earth rises are spectacular form the moon. you really need to see one live.....ummm, wait... I mean i HEAR they are, yeah, yeah....
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"In a highway service station, over the month of June, was a photograph of the earth taken coming back from the moon.

And you couldn't see a city on that marbled bowling ball,or a forest, or a highway, or me here least of all."

Refuge of the roads

Joni Mitchell
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Are they as close to the surface as it looks? πŸ™
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I believe they got near 4k km at its closest pass.
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I mean, it looks to me that they are quite far from the surface because you see such a distinct curvature on the Moon

I assume if they were really close it would look much more flat, like Earth looks to us
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No. the Earth set photo is cropped and rotated to be similar to the Apollo photo. The entire moon disk was visible since they were 4000 miles away. Cool pic anyway
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Amazing!! βœ¨βœ¨πŸŒ•
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Is it really β€œsetting” if it’s only the observer (spacecraft) moving, while the same face of the Moon is always facing Earth? From a fixed position on the Moon, the Earth doesn’t rise or set.

(Similar issues with the famous β€œEarthrise” photo taken by Apollo 8 in 1968.)
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The sun also doesn’t move, but we have sunrise and sunset.
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The Earth can rise/set in a few locations along the surface due to libration(?), but otherwise your point still stands
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Full image plus another and an animated visualization here: images.nasa.gov/search?q=Artemis%20ii%20earthset&page=1&media=image,video,audio&yearStart=1920&yearEnd=2026
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Love it soooo much!
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I've been looking for these to share with my class. Thank you so much. These are amazing.
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I was looking at the moon this morning and it looked different. Like we knew each other more.
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I've installed an auto refresher extension cuz a new photo popped up as I was downloading the others :3
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This makes me want to cry. It’s so beautiful.
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Wow! Thanks for posting that, it is lovely.
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πŸ‘οΈπŸ‘„πŸ‘οΈ 😍😍😍😍
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Do you know whether we will eventually be getting video-imagery from this mission? I ask as one who still recalls watching the 1969 moon landing in moving images.
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and to think, people think this is CGI or shot in a studio.
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Just astounding.
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Eat this you flat Earth nuts.
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Wow. Awe-inspiring images. Like the moon details in this one are just..wow: images.nasa.gov/details/art002e009289
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Obsessed βœ¨πŸŒ™
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absolutely beautiful jonkler moon
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This is a sick photo. Hello, lock screen.
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turns out it was home all along
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This one is absolutely amazing. Is it what an uninhabited, rocky stretch of Earth would look like if we could take a photo that discounted the atmosphere? It looks sooo close, like a giant hand could simply rest on it...
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As soon as I found out about this trip to the dark side of the moon, I knew this was coming. It doesn’t make it any less spectacular though!
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sometimes you just gotta stop and look at the whole entire world
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Like I mean, look at it. We get to _live_ there! All the time! We're there right now!
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So if Apollo 8 had Earthrise, is this Earthset?
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Yes!
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Wow wonderful.
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I love these shots.
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It is very difficult to reconcile that this nation is venturing around the Moon and inspiring humanity at the very same moment that our President is threatening to end a civilization on the Earth.
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Absolutely stunning
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I see pictures like this, and I think, "There are those that would destroy the place to put $10 more in the bank."
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I'll leave the "I can see my house from here" jokes as an exercise for the reader.
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I'm curious, why does Earth look so big here, isn't it smaller in other Earthrise pictures? Is it a depth of field thing because Artemis isn't on the Moon per se but pretty far beyond it (as evidenced by the serious curvature on the Moon that you obviously don't see when on it)?
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AAAAAAHHHHHWWWWWWWWWW

🀩🀩🀩
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Katie we are so beautiful 😭
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And so smol πŸ₯Ί
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chocolate mousse moon πŸ₯°
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The astronauts have no idea what is happening here.
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