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https://www.nasa.gov/gallery/journey-to-the-moon/
https://www.nasa.gov/gallery/artemis-ii-flight-day-highlight...
https://www.nasa.gov/gallery/lunar-flyby/
https://www.nasa.gov/gallery/return-to-earth/
https://www.nasa.gov/gallery/artemis-ii-splashdown-and-recov...
I can't help but feel like they've missed the mark a bit on some of the imagery from the mission that's been published so far.
One of the most compelling shots from the mission, to me, was Reid Wiseman's IPhone footage from within the capsule while Earth was being eclipsed[0].
At the start there's a moment you can see the window frame and the Moon all together. Seeing the moon in context of their vantage point within the the context of the capsule gave me the awe I had as a kid again, more than almost any shot that's come out this mission. I actually felt like I was in the capsule looking at a massive, sterile cold sphere.
I understand wanting to take a nice and centered DLSR picture of... _The Moon_ when you're floating by it, but frankly I've seen thousands of those. They're doing a flyby in a capsule in space, I want to have a taste of how the moon exists from _that_ context. What is it like being ~4,000 from the Moon's surface? Take a crappy 0.5x video from your phone showing the inside, then stick it front of the window. Let the Moon be contextualized from your vantage point. I wont be able to make out every crater and basin and the colors might be off from your eye's view, but I will be able to understand what they are seeing. Everyone has an intuitive understanding and feeling of an IPhone's optics and image pipeline, in some ways seeing the Moon through that is more real and relatable than any mirrorless DLSR + color correction.
This being said I don't want to take away from the accomplishment, I'm terribly excited about space exploration and it getting more light in the zeitgeist.
[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtemisProgram/comments/1sq9azh/iph...