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NASA Shares Photos Shot on iPhone 17 Pro Max During Artemis II Mission to the Moon

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You’d think Mr. Cook would’ve lend them an iPhone 18 prototype with the extra zoom or at least take some three-dimensional photos or videos for the Vision Pro. Hopefully they have airplane mode turned on. 🤔📱
 
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It's good that the thing works in space. Have they made it work when it's a serious winter and it's not kept in a thermally isolating pocket?
 
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NASA has shared three incredible photos shot on the iPhone 17 Pro Max by astronauts during the Artemis II mission to the Moon.


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Shot on iPhone 17 Pro Max (Wiseman)​

In February, NASA announced that the iPhone had been fully qualified for extended use in orbit, with reports indicating that each of the four crew members aboard the Orion are equipped with an iPhone 17 Pro Max for personal photos and videos.

The photos show Artemis II's Commander Reid Wiseman and Mission Specialist Christina Koch looking back at Earth through one of the Orion spacecraft's main cabin windows. Flickr data indicates that these photos were shot with the iPhone 17 Pro Max's front camera on April 2, which was the second day of the mission.


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Shot on iPhone 17 Pro Max (Koch)​

All other photos from the mission shared so far were captured with other cameras, such as the Nikon D5, Nikon Z 9, and GoPro HERO4 Black.


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Shot on Nikon D5​

Artemis II is NASA's first crewed mission to the Moon since 1972. The crew is expected to reach the far side of the Moon on Monday, breaking the all-time record for the farthest distance traveled from Earth by humans. However, the Orion is not capable of landing on the Moon and is set to return to Earth on April 10.

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They were afraid that the astronauts would dump the iPhones in favor of the hassleblads that the last mission left there to trim lift off weight, and get some really great photos that put the phone pics to shake. The D5 already did that on the trip there!
I'd love to have one of those 60's era cameras.
 
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It's good that the thing works in space. Have they made it work when it's a serious winter and it's not kept in a thermally isolating pocket?
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I’m genuinely curious about what would happen if they take the iPhone 17 Pro out to the space… would it work well? Would radiation damage it? What about the “emptiness” of space? I guess an iPhone can work in the vacuum…
 
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dominiongamma said:
that iPhone that took the picture was way more powerful then the Apollo space craft computer, it’s amazing how far tech has come and we take it for granted everyday
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All the more it elevates the technological accomplishment of the Apollo missions. The Apollo Guidance Computer installed on each command module and lunar module was comparable in performance “to the first generation of home computers from the 1970s, such as the Kenbak-1, Apple II, TRS-80, and Commodore PET.”
 
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david_n_n said:
It would be malpractice for Apple NOT to tout this at the next chance they get. And for the people complaining about objectively cool things accomplished by humanity: log off.
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Ignoring this particular subject matter, how exactly would we determine when something is, 'objectively cool'?
 
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