Woodland Creature

| Jennifer | 29 | Germany | Wannabe Historian, Animal & Night Sky Lover, Star Trek, David Bowie & Musical Theatre

[maureen2musings]

Comet at Dunstanburgh Castle

danmonk91

[che-ni]

St. Georgenberg with Benedictine Monastery, Tirol, Austria.

[che-ni]

Foggy Day on Top of Wattenberg, Tirol, Austria.

@talshiarsmostwanted

[che-ni]

Wood Sorrel (Oxalis acetosella)

[che-ni]

Signs of Spring

[che-ni]

Rathen, Sächsische Schweiz, Deutschland (Germany) (Pt. II).

[che-ni]

Rathen, Sächsische Schweiz, Deutschland (Germany) (Pt. I).

[babyfoxcollectionthings]

[sabertoothwalrus]

[thatdisasterauthor]

Somehow this video captures the scale of whales better than any other video or photo I have ever seen.

[cam-oak-corg]

That is a humpback. If you think they are huge, I have some news for you…

[may-the-nerds-be-with-you]

Me watching this video

[foone]

Fun fact: the blue whale is the biggest animal to ever live on earth. And they’re alive today.

The biggest isn’t some dinosaur or weird devonian fish, nope. It’s the blue whale, and you share a planet with them. How lucky is that?

[che-ni]

Some more Spring Blossoms

[che-ni]

Thanks to @talshiarsmostwanted

[maureen2musings]

My kind of blue hour

astroallu

[eknippp]

Some of my favorite quotes from Artemis ii so far:

"Copy. Moon joy."

"I have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working."

"Houston, if you could give me about 20 new superlatives in the mission summary for tomorrow that will help out my vocabulary a little bit, that would be great. Thank you."

“If you’ve ever seen the top of the spotlight of the top of the Luxor at night in Vegas, this looks like what it wants to be when it grows up.”

"To all of you down there on Earth... we love you, from the moon."

"We just went sci fi."

"It is so great to see Earth again. To Asia, Africa, and Oceania: we are looking back at you. We hear you can look up and see the moon right now. We see you too."

"We will always choose Earth. We will always choose each other."

“It’s a bright spot on the moon, and we would like to call it Carroll.”

[emmaharwoods]

photos by the artemis ii crew

[nasa]

Welcome to the Far Side of the Moon

A crescent Earth sets behind the Moon.

On April 6, 2026, the Artemis II astronauts flew around the Moon, observing the far side – which we never see on Earth thanks to tidal locking – with their own eyes and with cameras.

See more of the Moon:

A crescent Earth setting behind the Moon’s horizon.

Earth setting behind the Moon as seen by the Artemis II crew. Over half the left side of the image is filled by the gray lunar surface, pocked with craters.

A close view of the Moon. Jagged circles of craters dot the gray surface, fading to dark on the left side of the image.

A close view of the edge of the Moon. Jagged circles of craters dot the dark gray lunar surface, which arcs across the image.

A close-up view of the Moon, filling most of the frame. Along the left side of the image, the terminator divides the illuminated and darkened sides of the Moon.

A close-up view of the Moon, filling most of the frame. Along the left side of the image, the terminator divides the illuminated and darkened sides of the Moon.

Earth just as it set behind the Moon, as seen by the Artemis II crew. The dark gray surface of the Moon, pocked with craters, arcs from the bottom left corner of the image to the top right.

Check out more photos from the lunar flyby, including astronaut selfies and the solar eclipse only they experienced.

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[razztazticffn]

Happy First Contact Day!

April 5, 2063.

[che-ni]

First Spring Blossom

[simena]

Beers Julie Hart