Apple Sent an iPhone 17 Pro Max to the Moon — And the Photos It Took Could Redefine What a Smartphone Camera Means
An iPhone just photographed Earth from lunar orbit. Not a satellite. Not a purpose-built space camera hardened against cosmic radiation and vacuum. A smartphone — specifically, a pre-release Apple iPhone 17 Pro Max — riding aboard a commercial lunar mission, capturing images of the Moon’s surface and the pale blue dot of Earth hanging in