Absolutely incredible.

NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone.

Watch with sound on.

You're not suggesting that this administration says things without thinking them through?

That's awful.

And I still can't pay my kids school fees because I can't get past the recaptcha. I'm having to face that I may be an AI bot, which changes my view on this 🤣

For this eclipse, my camera strap got caught in the camera mount just before totality and in trying to free it, I pulled it in a way that I couldn't adjust the lens or move it. I made the decision to give up on it and not miss the eclipse trying to free it, so I had to use my phone.

The last bit of the photosphere going behind the eclipsed sun

My wife and son looking up at totality

A. wide-angle shot of the eclipsed sun

The sun just going into totality with a little bit still visible on the lower left.

Strange seeing the eclipse photos from a few years ago (2024) pop up in my memories just after seeing the Artemis II eclipse. We watched from Paducah, Kentucky.

This one is the Moon

This one us Charon. Did you recognize it?

One is Pluto's moon Charon.
One is Earth's moon, the Moon (aka Luna)

A little shift in perspective, and even the most familiar objects in space look surprising and new. 🧪🔭

Oh this is a fun view. The Orientale basin on the limb of the Moon as seen through an Orion capsule window. You can see, especially at around 7:00, lines of impact craters marking the giant splat of ejecta that was thrown out of the crater during the impact. www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2...

My son Chase looking through the telescope.

"There are people out there."

I can't wait to see the pictures from the real Artemis II cameras.

If one was keeping up, it was very easy to keep up with active planetary missions in those days. There wasn't much.

It pains me to think that one of the early images I downloaded via NSCA Mosaic is now a "deep cut." But of course this image is as old as the Mariner 2 dataset was in 1994, so yeah, I guess it is 🤣

The moon in earthshine, the solar corona, and the planet Venus towards the top from the Clementine spacecraft in 1994.

This Artemis II eclipse is giving me Clementine 1994 vibes with Venus in the background.

If I was on Artemis II now, I would get on the radio in a choked voice as they come out from behind the Earth & whisper "lost pressure, everyone else is dead, goodbye." I'd let it go silent for a while, then I'd start laughing. I would then return to Earth & get fired, but it would all be worth it.

Coming up on loss of signal as #ArtemisII goes behind the Moon. For the next 40 minutes humanity is divided into two - all of us, and four of them.

The Moon on the morning of April 6th using my phone and a 10-inch (0.25m) reflector.

A color corrected version of the first shot.

Okay, going to my pictures of the moon during the Artemis flyby, this one, just before I lost it, is my favorite because of the foreground trees on the lower right. It gives perspective.

The Moon on the morning of April 6th using my phone and a 10-inch (0.25m) reflector.

Strange looking up from my front yard at the moon through wispy clouds and knowing that there are people out there, right now, looking at it from nearby. Artemis II goes around the moon today!

This went really well. Suzuki signed my son's ball.

A photomosaic of the rim of Mare Orientale from Apollo 17. The illumination is from reflected light from earth.

While we will see the Orientale basin from Artemis II, it's not the first time that humans have seen it from the vicinity of the Moon. It was viewed in earthshine from Apollo 17 in 1972. That said, the sunlit views from high above that we are about to receive promise to be spectacular.

About to head down to the Knoxville Smokies (Cubs AA affiliate) home opener. Seiya Suzuki, one of our favorite Cubs, is here for a rehab assignment, so that's going to be a big bonus. Baseball time is here again...

That's home. That's us.

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

Here is my reprocessed version of the Juice NavCam images of comet 3I/Atlas taken last November shortly after it's closest approach to the sun. 🧪🔭

For this animation I removed the static noise and aligned the images to the nucleus.

Credit: ESA/Juice/NavCam
Processing: Simeon Schmauß CC-BY-SA

Keenan Golder presents at our research colloquium on his work on smooth plains on Mercury.

I would have thought this administration would love something called "AXIS"

I mean if clicks is what you're going for, they have a point. Otherwise...

Clockwise, from top left: Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus. None of the worlds is to scale, but all are imaged with JWST's near-infrared (NIRCam) instrument.

The giant planets of the Solar System, by JWST.

I have yet to face the reality of daylight saving time. Travel took me to the next time zone east today, so it is cancelled out.

Somewhat grainy mosaicked pictures showing the bright ling of Earth, with swirling clouds, against the black of space.

On the winds of war, a new moment of self reflection, our first distant view of ourselves.

OTD in 1947 American scientists launched a V-2 rocket which captured these first pictures of Earth taken from greater than 100 miles altitude.
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I'm so sorry, Michelle.