Every single time:

This color is real- just much more subtle to your eyes. The astronauts recalled seeing subtly hints of color visually as they drew near the surface, particularly around the Aristarchus plateau on the right. You can get the fine art print here: cosmicbackground.io/pages/ea…

Long post, but this one is important to me so I hope you stick it out! In January I reached out to Artemis II Commander @astro_reid with a simple ask- was he open to capturing the moon like I do for my colorful moon photos during the flyby? He humbly agreed, and we worked out a plan to incorporate into the photos captured as the crew approached the moon. The premise was simple- just capture enough photos in a burst to allow for image stacking to improve image fidelity, potentially to reveal color no human has ever captured. What he brought back was nothing short of magnificent. When I initially stacked the raw photos, it exceeded my expectations by far. The color came right out of the seemingly gray images, and showed details I've never seen before. It's possible nobody has. The lack of atmosphere meant a lot of color normally absorbed and scattered was present, so even the "near side" features looked exotic and unfamiliar. This view of the moon from an alien perspective made the usually-familiar lunar surface fresh and exciting, and the color we were able to resolve gave us valuable insight to the complex geological history of it's battered surface. Then, I faced a bit of a moral dilemma. I wanted people to be able to own these images in print- but I wouldn't feel right to profit off of them. As an active NASA astronaut, Reid certainly can't. He took these photos as part of a taxpayer-funded mission. If I couldn't split profits with him I didn't see a way to do this ethically, so I decided to release the images initially with no print offering, despite many requests!  Then, it clicked. After doing some research- I decided that I should do a print sale where the profits go 100% to charity. That way I can make prints available, do some good in the world, and it doesn't feel like an ethical conflict. ​I'm pleased to share my first EVER entirely-for-charity print release. ​ At the end of this sale all proceeds with be donated to UT MD Anderson Cancer Center. It feels fitting. I will follow up in a future post with a receipt from the donation, so you know how much we were able to donate. When I released this to my email subscribers only, we were already able to raise around $15k. Amazing! The limited edition fine art print is now publicly available, you can grab one of them at the link in my bio (also linked further in the thread) for a short time. Thank you for helping me do something good with my platform. Seriously... it feels amazing.

A timelapse view from our @SpaceX Dragon of the spectacular southern aurora seen in yesterday’s post, a result of a recent solar event. As opposed to the previous aurora I’ve seen, this one danced and snaked its way directly below us, putting on quite a show. I am in awe of this ethereal and emotionally evocative phenomenon.

Exactly this. I remember when I was in high school and the internet was dialup, thinking about all the information that I would be able to access. And then I was concerned about all the stupid people having the same access but no discernment or critical thinking abilities...

Hold a ping-pong ball up to the moon, you'll see it lit up the same way by the Sun. Matches what you get from parallel light rays striking distant, spherical objects, just like what the globe model expects. Good try, though.

You may want to check what you think you know about converging rays.

Gotta lie to flerf

Exactly this. Flat earther hate actually talk about, explaining, or backing up claims about their flat earth. They immediately defect to the Globe and prove that have no clue what they are even arguing against!

Exactly. Flat Earthers start with their desired conclusion and then work backwards, desperately trying to force reality to fit their narrative. They rely only on deception, irrational thinking, and a fundamentally broken scientific process.

Jour 104, orbite 1614 – Démonstration ludique de ce qu’est la tension de surface – c’est déjà l’été à bord de la Station spatiale internationale ! 🏄‍♀️ Les températures sont (heureusement) bien régulées à bord, mais j’ai entendu dire que la France et une partie de l’Europe subissent une intense vague de chaleur 🌡️. Hydratez-vous et prenez soin de vous ! 🎥 @esa / @NASA #εpsilon • @esaspaceflight • @ESA_fr • @Space_Station • @NASA_Johnson • @CNES

Best Proof the Earth is flat - "it looks fake" - "NASA lies" - "it looks flat" - "numbers are scary" - "water can't bend" - "we can see too far" - "Freemasons" - Out-of-focus P1000 - edited images - memes

Fundamental misunderstanding of the physics of light: Flat earther thinks that if perspective can make an object appear lower, the object can function as if it is ACTUALLY lower. The lack of education and understanding is scary.

Testing the Globe, I have had the results of this simple test posted for now 3 years.. I even made a $1,000 challenge where a Flat Earther only needs to make it work on Flat Earth to take the cash.. Yet for some reason not one #flatearth follower has been able to do it. hmmm...

How to confuse a flat earther:

Here’s a short video showing off how I captured a plane in front of the sun, even though they follow less predictable paths than aircraft. The hardest part wasn’t even taking all those photos…

There are two standards applied by Flerfs: unrealistic ones for normal people and no standards at all for their own claims.

You're still not understanding that the direction that we observe celestial objects disproves your claim that the Earth is flat. These arrows show that we observe the Sun in a different direction than its subsolar point in your fantasy world.