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NASA this week released a stunning video of \u201cEarthset,\u201d the humbling moment<\/a> when the Artemis II crew (now back at home) caught a view<\/a> of Earth setting behind the lunar surface. From the window of the crew\u2019s capsule, the recording captured the cusp of our bright and blue planet slowly disappearing behind the moon. The camera lens is of high-enough quality that the imaging picked up the wisps of weather systems traveling over our oceans and, in the foreground, the much darker lunar surface, peppered with crevices and craters.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cDude,\u201d exhales an overcome astronaut on the recording’s audio. \u201cNo way.\u201d <\/p>\n This was all filmed on an iPhone 17 Pro Max and was shot by Reid Wiseman, the American astronaut who commanded the Artemis II mission. The video has since gone viral, generating many millions of views and providing NASA with another shareable moon moment amid a crowded and often depressing news cycle. The video is no doubt a humbling reminder of not only how far humanity has gone in space, but how far consumer technology has come, too. Today, a smartphone used by more than a billion people is also powerful enough for astronauts.<\/p>\n NASA only recently changed its rules and allowed astronauts to bring their personal smartphones to space. On the Orion capsule, the four astronauts also brought along other devices, including Nikon D5 and Z9 cameras. Still, it\u2019s hard not to feel like the iPhone recording has sort of become an implicit advertisement for Apple. Indeed, several consumer tech outlets have picked up on the use of iPhones. One even called<\/a> the “Earthset” video, which hearkens back to a similar “Earthrise” video captured during the Apollo 8 mission, the \u201cbest iPhone ad Apple never made.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYou captured the wonders of space and our planet beautifully, taking iPhone photography to new heights, and we\u2019re grateful you shared it with the world,\u201d wrote Apple CEO Tim Cook in a social media post<\/a> earlier this month.<\/p>\n