🔗 Journey to the Moon

nasa.gov • April 6, 2026

NASA’s Artemis II mission has been fruitful in producing stunning and inspiring images, to say the least. The linked gallery appears to be what has been shared with us thus far. With luck, we’ll soon see the “earthset” images shot today, as the crew meandered their way around the dark side of the moon.

Also interesting is their choice in cameras. It looks like they have a few Nikon D5s on board, as well as the iPhone 17 Pro (in "space silver", of course). Many gallery images from the Nikons are 1920x1280px JPEGs, which leads me to believe these aren't really full resolution. I'd love nothing more than to get the full .NEF RAW files – maybe once they land back on Earth!

I'm also dying to know – if they are shooting RAW on the Nikons (they must be, right?) then are they shooting Apple ProRAW on the iPhones?

Update, 4/7/26: The "earthset" images have been published to a separate gallery here, and they. are. incredible.