Artemis Era Earthrise, Artemis II

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Earthrise, 2026. The view that changed everything, captured again for the first time in over 50 years. April 6, 2026, 7:22 p.m. ET. During the far side flyby, the Artemis II crew pointed a 400mm lens through Orion's window and photographed something humanity hadn't seen with its own eyes since December 1968: Earthrise. Earth appears as a thin, bright crescent. Only the upper edge catches sunlight, revealing scattered cloud systems and that familiar blue against the black. The rest of the planet fades into night. In the foreground, the Moon's rugged far side terrain is silhouetted along the horizon. Both bodies are oriented with their north poles to the left, offering a perspective of the Earth-Moon system rarely seen and never before from a crewed spacecraft of the Artemis era. The origina