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IN APRIL the crew of Artemis II showed that Earth’s loveliness from afar, originally revealed by the Moon-bound Apollo missions of the 1960s and 1970s, remains one of the space age’s enduring truths. The home planet’s intricate, swirling, colourful complexities turned out to offer just as wonderful a contrast to the sloe-black of space and the drab dull Moon today as they did when seen half a century ago.
This article appeared in the Science & technology section of the print edition under the headline “Reflections on a warming planet”
From the July 18th 2026 edition
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