{"id":588501,"date":"2026-04-07T17:59:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T17:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/588501\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T17:59:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T17:59:12","slug":"artemis-ii-astronauts-capture-stunning-earthset-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/588501\/","title":{"rendered":"Artemis II astronauts capture stunning ‘Earthset’ photo"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Artemis II astronauts are now forever intertwined with Apollo 8.<\/p>\n

A day after the historic lunar flyaround, NASA on Tuesday released striking photos taken by the U.S.-Canadian crew. <\/p>\n

The four astronauts channelled Apollo 8’s famous “Earthrise” shot from 1968 with their own: “Earthset,” showing our planet setting behind the gray, pockmarked moon.<\/p>\n

Astronaut William Anders photographed the original \u201cEarthrise\u201d during the\u00a0Apollo 8\u00a0mission\u00a0on Dec. 24, 1968.<\/p>\n

As the first colour photo of Earth taken from space, the image is widely associated with jump-starting\u00a0the global environmental movement\u00a0and leading to the\u00a0creation of Earth Day, an annual event promoting environmental activism and awareness, in 1970. <\/p>\n

\"EarthThe Earth rises over the lunar horizon in an image captured during the Apollo 8 mission on Dec. 24, 1968. Popularly known as ‘Earthrise,’ the image was captured by astronaut William Anders. (NASA\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Another photo captures the total solar eclipse that occurred when the moon blocked the sun from the crew’s perspective. <\/p>\n

\"TheIn this image provided by NASA, which the Artemis II crew captured from lunar orbit, the moon eclipses the sun on Monday. (NASA\/The Associated Press)<\/p>\n

The three Americans and one Canadian are now headed home, with a splashdown in the Pacific set for Friday.<\/p>\n

\"JeremyCanadian Space Agency astronaut and Artemis II mission specialist Jeremy Hansen takes photographs through the Orion spacecraft’s window during the Artemis II crew\u2019s flyby of the moon on Monday. (NASA\/Reuters)<\/p>\n

Apollo 8’s three astronauts became the world’s first lunar visitors, orbiting the moon on Christmas Eve 1968. Their “Earthrise” shot became a symbol of the modern-day environmental movement.<\/p>\n

WATCH | Sending people to space brings out the ‘best in humanity,’ says NASA chief exploration scientist:\"\"<\/p>\n

How Artemis II is setting up the next stage of space exploration<\/p>\n

Jacob Bleacher, NASA’s chief exploration scientist, says the first two Artemis missions have set the stage for the next moon landing, a moon base and eventually, human exploration of Mars, missions so challenging that only international co-operation makes them possible. <\/p>\n

Artemis II marks NASA’s first return to the moon with astronauts \u2014 a critical step toward a lunar landing by another crew in two years. <\/p>\n

\"FourThe Artemis II crew, counterclockwise from top left, mission specialists Christina Koch and Hansen, commander Reid Wiseman and pilot Victor Glover pose with eclipse viewers during a lunar flyby Monday. (NASA\/The Associated Press)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,75,348],"class_list":["post-588501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}