iPhone Video Shows 'Earthset' From Space
(Tuesday April 21, 2026 @03:00AM (BeauHD)
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- News link: https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/04/21/0012245/iphone-video-shows-earthset-from-space
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NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman [1]posted an out-of-this-world iPhone video on Sunday, showing Earth disappear behind the Moon at 8x zoom. "I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view," said Wiseman, noting that this video is "uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom" and "quite comparable to the view of the human eye." The New York Times [2]says the video marks the first time an "Earthset" has been captured on video.
"We've seen our fair share of [3]remarkable images and videos from NASA's Artemis II mission around the Moon. Some of those were even captured on iPhone," notes 9to5Mac. "But Reid Wiseman, astronaut and commander for the Artemis II mission, just posted a new video that [4]might take the crown for the most impressive yet ."
[1] https://x.com/astro_reid/status/2046009031613907029?s=61&t=a-bloX1n-TZ50ofqhetO1A
[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/science/reid-wiseman-earthset-photo-artemis-2.html
[3] https://www.planetary.org/articles/the-best-images-from-artemis-ii
[4] https://9to5mac.com/2026/04/20/astronauts-astounding-iphone-17-pro-max-video-shows-earthset-from-space/
"We've seen our fair share of [3]remarkable images and videos from NASA's Artemis II mission around the Moon. Some of those were even captured on iPhone," notes 9to5Mac. "But Reid Wiseman, astronaut and commander for the Artemis II mission, just posted a new video that [4]might take the crown for the most impressive yet ."
[1] https://x.com/astro_reid/status/2046009031613907029?s=61&t=a-bloX1n-TZ50ofqhetO1A
[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/science/reid-wiseman-earthset-photo-artemis-2.html
[3] https://www.planetary.org/articles/the-best-images-from-artemis-ii
[4] https://9to5mac.com/2026/04/20/astronauts-astounding-iphone-17-pro-max-video-shows-earthset-from-space/
How far we have fallen (Score:2)
by nospam007 ( 722110 ) *
The last Moon-missions used Hasselblad cameras with REAL objectives and now this.
Compare with Spacex's Starship (Score:1)
by greytree ( 7124971 )
Spacex's Starship gives us LIVE video of fucking reentry plasma, flaps as they disintegrate with the heat, splashdown.
After a couple of weeks, NASA's Artemis finds an Iphone video one of the crew took.
Free iPhones rather than Corvettes? (Score:3)
So are astronauts going to get free iPhones rather than free Corvettes? :-)
Re: (Score:2)
Well, in a few years the nominal value of an iphone may well be the same as the one of a Corvette back then.