01 · The Library — Climate & Overshoot
She Stopped Shining
Two photographs of the same planet, fifty-four years apart, taken by people who were not trying to prove anything.
Apollo 17 photographed a blue marble. Artemis 2 photographed the same object and the albedo is measurably lower. Neither crew was making a point; that is what makes the pair difficult to argue with.
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