I'm doing it.
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I'm doing it. I'm posting this picture again. You'll see a lot of nerds posting this lately, because holy fuck
This image is so fucking cool!
At the 1 o'clock and 7 o'clock positions around the edges of the planet's upper atmosphere, you can see greenish hints of aurorae. I really like how pronounced the atmosphere itself is in this photo.
At the 4 o'clock position, you can see a sunburst jutting out from behind Earth, and that's because in this picture, Earth is eclipsing the Sun.
Yes, you heard me right. The Earth is eclipsing the Sun in this picture. That means that the light you're seeing on Earth in this image is being reflected off of the Moon!
The low-light situation causes a lot of noise in some parts of the photo, which blends in nicely with the starry background.
