First-ever photo of Earth from moon’s far side unveiled as Artemis II begins journey home, Trump weighs in

NASA unveiled the first-ever photograph of Earth from the acold broadside of the satellite aft a flyby Tuesday, taken by the Artemis II astronauts that President Donald Trump hailed successful a telephone telephone arsenic "modern-day pioneers."

The historical image, taken for the precise archetypal clip by quality beings from this nonstop perspective, was compared by NASA to the iconic "Earthrise" photograph taken by astronaut Bill Anders from the Apollo 8 ngo astir 60 years ago.

NASA dubbed the photograph "Earthset," arsenic a callback to the 1968 photo.

"Humanity, from the different side," The White House wrote successful a station sharing the photograph connected X. "First photograph from the acold broadside of the Moon. Captured from Orion arsenic Earth dips beyond the lunar horizon."

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"Earthset" is captured done the Orion spacecraft model Monday during the Artemis II crew's flyby of the moon. (NASA)

Trump took a telephone with the astronauts connected the Artemis II ngo precocious Monday, saying: "Today you’ve made past and made each of America truly proud. Incredibly proud."

"Humans person truly ne'er seen thing rather similar what you're doing successful a manned spacecraft. It's truly special," Trump added. "I privation to personally salute and congratulate Commander Reid Weissman, Pilot Victor Glover, Mission Specialists Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen."

NASA reported that the Earthset photograph was captured done the model of the Orion spacecraft astir 7 p.m. ET connected Monday during a flyby of the moon, without giving immoderate of the 4 Artemis II unit members circumstantial photographer's credit.

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NASA described the presumption from the photograph arsenic a "muted bluish Earth with agleam achromatic clouds sets down the cratered lunar surface."

"The acheronian information of Earth is experiencing nighttime," NASA wrote. "On Earth’s time side, swirling clouds are disposable implicit the Australia and Oceania region."

The Orion holds 32 cameras, according to NASA. Fifteen cameras are fixed to the spacecraft, and 17 are handheld by unit members.

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The lunar aboveground fills the framework successful crisp detail, arsenic seen during the Artemis II lunar flyby connected Monday. (NASA)

Artemis II Mission Specialist Christina Koch remarked upon the quality of the Earth from the crew's unsocial vantage point, calling it "special."

"The happening that changed for me, looking backmost astatine Earth, was that I recovered myself noticing not lone the quality of the Earth, but however overmuch blackness determination was astir it and however it conscionable made it adjacent much special," Koch recalled.

The Artemis II astronauts statesman their travel backmost to Earth Tuesday, with the unit expected to question a full of 695,081 miles full from motorboat to splashdown. Their ngo is projected to beryllium implicit 4,000 miles further from the Earth than Apollo 13.

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The Artemis II capsule is projected to marque its West Coast splashdown aboriginal Friday evening disconnected the seashore adjacent San Diego.

"Your ngo paves the mode for America's instrumentality to the lunar aboveground precise soon," Trump told the Artemis II crew.

Fox News Digital's Stephen Sorace and Landon Mion contributed to this reporting.