April 6, 2026. Six minutes before Earth disappears behind the Moon. The Artemis II crew captured this as our planet drifted toward the lunar limb during the far side flyby. Earth is in crescent phase, sunlight coming from the right. On the day side, swirling clouds over Australia and Oceania are still visible. The rest of the planet has already turned to night.
In the foreground, the Moon's surface is covered in secondary crater chains, lines of small indentations formed by debris thrown outward from a much larger, more violent impact somewhere else. Not direct hits, but collateral damage written into the surface billions of years ago.