‘Earthset’ Is Captured on Video for First Time

The world watched because the Earth disappeared behind the pockmarked moon, within the first video displaying humanity’s house planet sinking under the lunar horizon.

The 53-second clip depicting the astronomical phenomenon, referred to as Earthset, was posted on-line on Sunday evening by the astronaut Reid Wiseman, who took the video on an iPhone this month whereas aboard the Artemis II shuttle. By late Monday morning, it had been seen 11 million occasions.

While Earth dwellers are used to seeing the moon rise and set, the view from the moon is the extraordinary flip facet.

The distinctive vantage level — seen solely from orbit or past — remembers the long-lasting Earthrise picture by the astronauts aboard Apollo 8 in 1968, once they performed the very first human journey across the moon.

“Only one chance in this lifetime,” Mr. Wiseman wrote in his submit on X. “Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset.”

His video provides a way of proportion, underscoring simply how small the Earth is on the grand scale.

It takes about eight seconds for a transparent view of a tiny slice of the marbled blue-and-white planet to look. There is a putting distinction between the pitch-black void of house, the beautiful coloration of the Earth and the dullish grey moonscape that dwarfs the Earth.

Mr. Wiseman holds the shot, and about midway by the video, the Earth seems to be like a vibrant white orb, with the blue having light from view. Over the subsequent 20 seconds, it regularly disappears, and the Earthset is full.

“I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view,” he wrote. “This is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.”