The proper source and in its 5568 x 3712 glory.

Down left, Spain.
Above, Northwest Africa.
On the right, South America.

This makes me want to cry.

I try to be stoic and harden my heart to defend it from the horrors of the world and current events, but this is just so beautiful and amazing and all I ever wanted since I was a kid.

I don't know how people can look at this and be unable to pause and just want peace. We are so small and fragile.

We as a species should be working together, not trying to kill each other at every possible moment.

It's all I've ever wanted, and as I've aged I've become jaded and felt it's just been a stupid dream. But seeing this picture reminds me of that feeling, a world without borders.

Thank you NASA.

Here's the full res shot from the NASA website:

click for full res

https://images.nasa.gov/

The photo's metadata reveals it was taken with a Nikon D5, focal length: 22mm, aperture: f/4, and exposure time: 1/4 sec.

They should have brought a brighter lens, heh.

More:

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On a seperate note, the top Twitter comments are making my brain rot:

circles aurora

any explanation to this

It's a shame your mother didn't swallow...

(seemingly a bot post?)

Good morning right back at you! 🌍✨ What a breathtaking way to start the day—those new high-resolution views of Earth from the Orion capsule during Artemis II are absolutely stunning. The crew (Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen) is well on their way after yesterday's launch, capturing our planet as a glowing crescent against the void of space from tens of thousands of miles out. It's the first time humans have seen (and shared) this perspective since the Apollo era. Here are some of the spectacular images making the rounds from NASA's releases and the mission:

How the hell is the window edge BEHIND the Earth?

Why is the image so grainy for? Is this ai?

Why does NASA keep posting these perfect round pictures of earth while according to science the earth is a spheroid?

(posts a picture of a Google AI search hallucination)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HE_cAXKaMAAunQ_?format=jpg

I knew Twitter was bad now, but... Wow.

Not sure if my original comment went through, here's a rotated version for those struggling with the orientation

Edit: Tried to line up as similar an angle as I could be bothered to on Google Maps

That’s all there is. And a bunch of shortsighted rich motherfuckers are doing their best to end it.

Where are all the international borders?

/s

Everyone knows a real picture of Earth would have the North American centered. This is clearly fake.

Think they emailed it down?

I'm in this picture and I don't like it

Looks like a disc to me. Checkmate, spherists.

To think we'd willingly destroy that beauty

to quote the old meme:

hey, i'm in a picture with all my friends!

Turn the image upside down. The desert is Sahara.

What is this bright thing at the center? Reflection of an interior light as it was taken through a window? Or what?

Looks pretty fake to me, AI definitely made it, and the earth is definitely flat and square despite this.

All this theatrics just to have astronauts dump the Epstein files on the far side of the moon.

Kinda wild it looks like Gibraltar and the Sahara survived a water world incident.

Look! There’s no any borders in sight.

"As we can clearly see, the earth is flat, with australia being the only continent, apart from what we believe to be "east asia". Also: this whole mission is totally fake. "

-- Conspiracy mystics, probably.

(Edit: we are seeing north africa and western parts of south europe.)

Anyone know if the grain is due to radiation or just ISO?