This is incredible. The new @NASA image release from #Artemis includes a sequence of ‘Hello World’ still photographs.
I’ve been processing / animating them and here’s what the original didn’t show us:Satellites, including their solar arrays, lightning storms
and dancing aurora! pic.twitter.com/fiCdXIhXyt— Andy Saunders – Apollo Remastered (@AndySaunders_1) May 6, 2026
The animation is sped up by a factor of 30, with the sequenced images covering 1 minute and 20 seconds in real time.
“There are 17 separate photos in the sequence—there were more, but at different exposures and Earth started to drift off-shot in some—so this was the best consecutive sequence,” Saunders told Ars via email. “I applied some color and contrast adjustments to each individual frame then animated them. They’re great resolution, so I could then zoom in on the most interesting parts.”
Those interesting parts include lightning storms, aurorae, and satellites. The latter present an interesting phenomenon: It appears the solar arrays on the satellites are visible. This seems unlikely, though, as the scale in the image means these arrays would have to be on the order of a kilometer wide, which is not the case. It is possible that the solar array’s appearance may be an optical effect due to Orion’s window.
In any case, the new imagery offers yet another stunning view of our world, which is active not just on the surface but in the heavens above.