{"id":573963,"date":"2026-04-09T13:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T13:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/573963\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T13:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T13:53:10","slug":"fake-artemis-ii-photo-shows-earth-with-identical-cloud-patterns-to-apollo-8-photo-from-1968","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/573963\/","title":{"rendered":"FAKE Artemis II Photo Shows Earth With Identical Cloud Patterns To Apollo 8 Photo From 1968"},"content":{"rendered":"

Does an Artemis II photo taken in April 2026 show the same cloud patterns as an Apollo 8 photo from 1968? No, that’s not true: The “Artemis 2” image, dated April 6, 2026, is AI-generated and is based on the famous Apollo 8 photo known as “Earthrise.” There are no official NASA photos from Artemis II that match the fake image.<\/p>\n

The claim appeared in a post<\/a> (archived here<\/a>) by the Space Voyager account on Facebook on April 6, 2026. It read:<\/p>\n

April 6, 2026 Artemis II The Iconic Earthrise Moment Happens Again After 58 Years\ud83c\udf0d\ud83d\ude80
On December 24, 1968, Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders photographed Earth rising over the Moon. Now, Artemis II retraced that journey and captured the same view decades later, the same emotion remains. \ud83c\udf15\ud83d\udcf7\u2728<\/p>\n

This is what the post looked like on Facebook at the time of writing:<\/p>\n

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Image source: post by Space Voyager on Facebook.<\/p>\n

Both images in the social media post are versions of the “Earthrise” photo<\/a> (archived here<\/a>) from 1968, though each shows a different degree of AI editing or generation. Lead Stories ran each through Gemini, Google’s AI assistant.<\/p>\n

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Image source: Hive Moderation.<\/p>\n

“Artemis 2”<\/p>\n

This is what the Gemini analysis<\/a> (archived here<\/a>) said about the photo labeled “Artemis 2, April 6, 2026”:<\/p>\n

The image you provided has been identified as being mostly or entirely edited or generated using Google AI.<\/p>\n

My analysis detected a SynthID digital watermark embedded in the image. SynthID is a tool developed by Google DeepMind that adds an imperceptible watermark to AI-generated or modified content to help with identification and transparency.<\/p>\n

While the ‘Artemis II’ mission is a real NASA mission with genuine photographs, this specific version of the ‘Earthrise’ scene appears to have been created or significantly altered by AI.<\/p>\n

The Hive Moderation AI-Generated Content Detection tool<\/a> agreed and concluded the image was 100% “likely to be AI-generated”:<\/p>\n

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(Image source: Hive Moderation.)<\/p>\n

NASA<\/p>\n

NASA has a gallery of images from the Artemis II mission, including a section<\/a> (archived here<\/a>) dedicated to the lunar flyby from April 6, 2026. None of the official images match the photo shown in the social media post. The photo<\/a> (archived here<\/a>) that comes closest is called “Earthset.” It appears below:<\/p>\n

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Image source: NASA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Does an Artemis II photo taken in April 2026 show the same cloud patterns as an Apollo 8…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[252525,42141,10414,247418,79],"class_list":{"0":"post-573963","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-apollo-8","9":"tag-artemis-ii","10":"tag-facebook","11":"tag-image-source","12":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}