So I know quite a bit about how images are captured.
Both of these images were taken on a Nikon D5 which NASA selected because of its resistance to radiation. They also sent a Nikon Z9 for testing but it hasn’t been used yet.
The video below claims that these images were taken 12 hours apart because one is “nighttime” and one is “daytime”. This is gibberish. There is no daytime and nighttime in space.
The images were taken one after another by commander Reid Wiseman from one of the Orion spacecraft's window after completing the translunar injection burn on April 2, 2026 as it says below.
This is why the clouds and position of the earth are roughly the same.
The sun is behind the earth in each image, meaning on the ground it’s nighttime in Africa.
The reason the images look different is because the camera is shooting in manual mode, not automatic and the exposure settings, and iso are different in order to let more light hit the sensor in the brighter image.
The image where Earth appears brighter was shot at ISO 51,200 with a 1/4 second shutter speed at f/4 on a 14-24mm f/2.8 lens. At those settings, the sensor is gathering far more light than the human eye would perceive, turning moonlight and atmospheric scatter into what looks like broad daylight. The darker image was shot on a different lens (35mm f/2) with faster, darker exposure settings, which is why you see the red-brown Sahara lit by moonlight and the thin atmospheric glow rather than the blown-out ‘daytime’ look.
There’s also a considerable amount of noise in the high iso image. Any photographer will tell you not to use iso 51,200 for anything unless you really have to. Well in this case they really had to in order to get the shot.
The night side of Earth is being illuminated by two sources: the full moon, which is directly behind the camera as Orion heads toward it, and sunlight refracting and scattering through the atmosphere. At ISO 51,200 and a 1/4 second exposure, the sensor is picking up both, the moonlight illuminating the surface and the atmospheric forward-scatter. Combined with the long exposure, all of that light blooms into what reads as ‘daytime.’ But it’s not actually daytime. It’s nighttime in Africa and the camera is just gathering far more light than the human eye would/could see.
If you’re a flat earth guy here’s an experiment you can run, go on eBay and purchase a Nikon d5 ($700) and a 14–24mm f/2.8 lens then put a basketball in a dark room. Shine a flashlight behind it so the ball is backlit. Hold a small mirror on the opposite side (that’s your moon). Set the D5 to ISO 51,200, 1/4 second, f/4. Take one shot. Then drop to ISO 800, speed up the shutter, take another.
The first exposure will show the ball looking weirdly bright and lit from the mirror side. The second will show just the rim glow around the edges. Same ball, same light, two completely different-looking images just like commander Wiseman’s two shots here.
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12 hours between the 2 new globe pictures NASA/Artemis gave us, and in both, the cloud patterns and globe position are the exact same. (Where's the 1,040 miles per hour spin?)
When you watch the live stream of the astronauts, they keep looking off to the corner for instructions from the director. (They're supposed to be the only ones there?)
I'm actually shocked at how minimal of effort they are putting into this scam. I expected the production would be high-quality since they know trust in authority is at an all-time-low and thousands of people are waking up every day...but no, they really aren't even trying. They genuinely think we are all braindead idiots who are too fluoridated to notice any of these mistakes.