As I suspected, media are getting very confused about that #Artemis II Earth image, thanks to NASA’s poor original captioning.
This BBC article shows it as “Hello, world” without knowing / noting that it’s the dark side, illuminated by moonlight.
Then lower in the article it says NASA later released another image, this time showing Earth in near complete darkness with city lights.
Folks, it’s the same image, just differently processed 🙄
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8jzr423p9o
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