Real footage of Earth rising over the Moon captured by the Japanese lunar orbiter.

Sigh…so peaceful from up there…

The entirety of all known life, encapsulating the whole of collective human experience, this priceless blue gem floating in the endless and unknowable void. Hanging there like a fragile ornament, a whole garden of noise and warmth and accident suspended in vast indifference. From this distance it looks quaint, almost modest, its storms reduced to delicate curls, continents to faint stains of color. No borders, no names, no drama, no urgency—just a small, luminous refuge rising over a grey surface that has known none of this. And this is the same world we take for granted to the point of harm, its everyday presence masking how close it is to the miraculous. The Moon offers no commentary, only contrast, and in that silence the point comes down gently but firmly: everything we argue over, build, break, love, and lose is contained in that little glow, and nowhere else.

Yesterday the same picture was uploaded under the same title, though the op in that post put lot more effort by linking it. 

I call this one Earthrise from the surface of the Moon.🎶

Where’s the footage? This is just a photo…