Process of the Artemis II Earthset Plate

Thanks for following this body of work, it was an inspiring project for me!

#sciart

Valid positions. Also not relevant to the fact that article, except for the final paragraph, and especially its title, is misleading.

Except it doesn’t, because NASA also contracted Blue Origin for a lander, and Artemis III is planned to go ahead with either one or both landers.
Yeah, Musk sucks, but let’s not warp reality around him any more than Twitter already does.

Same as original image, but with vastly shrunken moons. Callisto is hard to see, and the minor moons are almost invisible.

Here's a version with closer to correct true apparent size. Note that Io is the same apparent size as the Moon from Earth.

I love the composition and colour in this one. Plus the explorer ship is a great design!

Digital art drawing of Jupiter's moons as if seen from Jupiter's cloud tops. Swirling brown and tan clouds in a blue sky frame four small lumpy asteroids and four large spherical moons. Io has yellow and white regions with glowing red volcanoes and the plume of erupting volcanoes visible on the limb. Europa is white and tan, criss-crossed with brown cracks. Ganymede is brown, gray, and white, and Callisto is brown with tiny white craters. Io appears by far the largest--twice as big as Europa and Ganymede, which are about the same apparent size. Callisto is then half the size of those. The minor asteroid moons: Metis, Adrastea, Amalthea, and Thebe; are elliptical lumps much smaller than Callisto.

Commission for @zinzrinz.bsky.social of all of Jupiter's Moons, as seen from the cloud tops, with the correct relative apparent sizes for each of the Galilean moons and the inner four asteroid moons.

New photos of the N1-L3 weight model. Well, some are new anyway...

The new Soviet Space Substack is out!
graphicsnickstevens.substack.com/p/new-photos...

Covering the recently released N1-L3 1M1 photos. In this case with the text from the source document, plus the usual cool image, cool link, and special download.

@phillimess.bsky.social had this toy as a kid! We had no idea what it was, given it didn’t feature in the films at all.

Skylab against the Earth's limb.

Skylab, the first US space station.

A digital rendering of Babylon 5 a huge space station hanging in dark space. Model by Andy Crook

A digital rendering of a Bernal Sphere - concept space habitat. Model by Nick Stevens

A digital rendering of Station V from 2001 a Space Odyssey. A large 4 spoked rotating wheel with a docking station at the wheels hub. Model by Nick Stevens

A space station positioned in front of a planetary ring system with some asteroids in the foreground

Space Stations ! Science labs, listening posts, last best hopes for peace or simply waystations out in the dark. It's no secret that Babylon 5 was my gateway into using #Lightwave3d so I have a soft spot for space stations. #Scifi #ScifiArt

A large, ring-shaped Lucrehulk-class droid control ship orbits the green and blue planet Naboo, surrounded by several smaller Vulture droids in the dark expanse of space.

BREAKING NEWS
In response to the Trade Federation's blockade of Naboo, the Republic announces a blockade of Naboo.

A modular cargo spaceship from Satr Cops.

"They're dead, and everyone, including them, knows it."

Another ship from Star Cops, this time the interplanetary cargo ship "Daedales", as featured in the episode Conversations with the Dead".

Just sharing a few random thoughts in the middle of the night....

jmichaelstraczynski.substack.com/p/everyone-y...

🥰🫡

Space Trucks! The idea of plying the space lanes fascinates me, tramp steamers making a living on the rim. Connecting people and places. #Lightwave3D #Scifi #ScifiArt

In Ten Forward on the Enterprise D, we see Guinan behind the bar looking with exasperation toward Rowlf the Dog who is wiping down the bar with a rag whilst wearing an E collar/recovery cone.

Day 170 of inserting a Muppet into a Star Trek screenshot

#StarTrek #StarTrekTNG
#TheMuppets

Because I recently learned I have some more Belgariad fans amongst my followers I thought I'd reshare this.

yes I painted Gina Torres as the model for my version of Polgara. What of it? lol.

A map of the world of the Belgariad.

A view of the world of the Belgariad. From SPAAAAACCCCEEEEE!!!!

Another Belgariad fan here!

A cargo lander from “Eyes Turned Skywards”.

A Soviet LK lander, part of their failed response to Apollo.

Astronauts approaching their Cargo LEM from “Ocean of Storms”.

A Soviet LEK lander and crasher stage, from “A Sound of Thunder”.

Alternate moon missions 🌙

A quick piece to honor Artemis II mission going around the Moon. So inspiring to see it actually happening!

Blender, Photoshop, 2026.

#noAI

Screenshot of where I'm up to in the article with arrows showing that I'm only 50% of the way through and the word "HOW?" written in red. Send help.

19/ Jesus Christ how am I still barely half way through this?

What day is it? Where am I?

Send help.

[alt text by NASA] The Moon, seen here backlit by the Sun during a solar eclipse on April 6, 2026, is photographed by one of the cameras on the Orion spacecraft’s solar array wings. Orion is visible in the foreground on the left. Earth is reflecting sunlight at the left edge of the Moon, which is slightly brighter than the rest of the disk. The bright spot visible just below the Moon’s bottom right edge is Saturn. Beyond that, the bright spot at the right edge of the image is Mars. Credit: NASA

Whoa 🤯

The Moon, in full eclipse, with the #Artemis II Orion spacecraft. Part of the Moon and spacecraft are lit by Earthshine, and both Saturn and Mars are visible to the lower right. Incredible. Details: images.nasa.gov/details/art0...

Thermal infrared image of Earth. Cold high clouds are white, warm ocean is dark gray or black. In some areas it is hard to distinguish clouds from land or water because the temperature is similar. Rotated 145˚ counter-clockwise, so north is to the lower-left.

Long exposure view of Earth at Night. Blue ocean, brown desert, and green forest are all visible I between vast expanses of blue water and swirling white clouds.

I was curious what a view of Earth matching the Artemis II pic would look like from a conventional weather satellite.

Here’s a thermal infrared (heat) image from directly above the Prime Meridian at 00:30 April 3rd from @eumetsat.int (MTI1) rotated to match as closely as possible.

🚀🌍🌔

A mostly complete 1980s Lego moon base.

Visiting my parents, this is on the shelf of the room I slept in last night.

A HD remaster of Ulysses 31 (1982) is coming today on a French network!! 🤩

I heard an interview he did around 2010 with film podcaster Simon Mayo, who comes across as one of the nicest people you could meet. Ricky ‘teased’/bullied him, apparently just for the fun of it. That cemented my view of Gervais.

The whole world will be your enemy, prince with a thousand enemies. And when they catch you, they will smash you with a hammer. But first they must catch you.

Former professional footballer turned current pundit Ian Fiveankles on sports washing:

Met-12 True Colour imagery today shows cold air plunging down over NW Africa lifting dust and showing signs of an undular bore feature behind the front. The front hits the Algerian SW border at that time, via @inorbitivan.bsky.social