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
// That’s home. That’s us.
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Alternative references of better image quality mentioned in comments by @[email protected]:
- https://images.nasa.gov/details/art002e000192;
- https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e000192/art002e000192~orig.jpg [5568 x 3712]
I think the yellow tinted light is a reflection in the capsule window, and the other more white-ish light is the sun reflecting in the ocean. The Sun has a very diffuse reflection from the light reflecting off all the waves, but also a more specular reflection in the middle. I always wondered what the ratio between those was. Now I know.
Edit: Could also be the moon reflecting, not the sun.