Artemis II astronaut captures ‘Earthset’ during lunar flyby
NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman captured extraordinary footage of “Earthset” during the Artemis II mission earlier this month.
Wiseman, the mission commander, shot the video on an iPhone as the crew made their way around the moon. He shared the footage of “Earthset,” which is when the Earth appears to set behind the moon, on Monday in a social media post. The crew captured images of “Earthset” on April 6.
“Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset,” Wiseman wrote.
“I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view,” he added. “This is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom, which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye.”
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