Seen this before. Here's why I have my doubts about it. The sun diameter is circa 4 times the Earth-Moon distance. The white lines should be parallel....
If you have watched any YouTube Flerf stuff at all you will soon realise that their god is "Perspective". They can explain EVERYTHING with perspective. Hence the weak attempt at humour.
Yes, of course, I wasn't referring to perspective in that sense, I meant that many factors influenced that photograph, such as where it was taken from, the refraction of light, etc.
If it zoomed in on the surface, itβd see the resting place of NASAβs GRAIL satellite that was deliberately crashed into the far side of the moon after what was deemed at the time βNASAβs most successful mission.β
Its obviously an artificial structure of some kind and am pretty sure NASA don't do it. Being as the moon's circumference is greater than 12.9km, that structure is pretty big and there appears to be another on the horizon
The far side is fully lit at new moon every month. I don't know why we started calling it the "dark side" except that we're so earth-centric. That side ain't dark to anybody but us.
Great photo, I remember when Apollo 8 orbited the moon and humans got their first in-person look at the other side. It seemed crazy at the time! We had photos from satellites but for anyone to go and look at it was utterly astonishing.
WHAT no Nazi space base?! Also known as Musks second home ππ to be honest I'm quite disappointed if I was as rich as he is supposed to be but then again he may be to afraid to go up when so many of his rockets explode after 2 minutes π€¦ββοΈβΊοΈ
As far as I understand the moon is full of colors. Although this one looks too big and not related to geological features, maybe some artefact of the camera?
Itβs almost impossible to comprehend the scale of things in space but imagine trying to spot a Mini Cooper from 250,000 miles away. Even hundreds or thousands of them, each hundreds of miles apart, would be imperceptible at this distance.
Can you see the Chinese settlement? Wonder how big it is now. π€ yes, will look up myself.
Thank you for this glimpse of the other side. Wondering if this is what, Break out to the Other Side was about. By singer I can see in my head but at a loss without coffee to identify.
We have the more interesting side. When I saw this, I wondered if the topology on the near side was shaped by debris thrown out from earth during asteroid collisions, such as Chixalub π€
Nah it's simply because asteroids are more likely to hit the moon after having passed by Earth, due to the lensing of Earth's gravity, than vice versa.
Earth is like a big slingshot that bends the path of asteroid right into the moon.
Nobody ever said the far side is the dark side. When you see a quarter moon, the other 3/4 (of this side) is dark. Most of the far side is light at that time.
Now if the Chinese can convince war criminal Netanyahu to stop the genocide of the Palestine people, we can consider them the new superpower of our century.
Why is everyone making the moon have a beauty contest? "I like our side better" as if you have to choose? Just enjoy the new view! Why do we have to make EVERYTHING a competition? Yall gonna give the Moon, moon-dysphoria. Can yall find no joy in seeing from new angles?
I don't even drink alcohol, but decades ago when I did, I had one Budweiser and that was enough. I only finished it because a friend in college gave it to me and I knew he didn't have much money, so I "manned up" and drank it and appreciated his gesture.
This will upset the Flat Earthers, as theyβll now have to accuse someone else apart from NASA of hiding the truth and gaslighting the population π
More and more we will see advances in all things from China since the criminal has decided to isolate the US from every country that he perceives as mean to him.
I know, new moon but I had to crack the joke.
If it makes one person giggle amongst the gloomy news, I'll be happy.
Thanks for sharing the photo, love this stuff.
Haha, sorry, I didn't get the joke. I've received several attack messages because they think the so-called dark side is actually dark. π₯²
I wish you a great night.π
Twitter Trauma Disorder. I totally thought he was serious, too. In fact, I am still not used to every other reply being something about "NASA lies!" or "The Moon is fake." I do appreciate Bluesky people. Much more sane environment.
the termination line (shift from light to dark) on each sphere will look different depending on angle of camera to moon and to earth and where they each are in rotation. not strange. a simple known principle. but may be disorienting to the eye.
I was going to say "duh, how do you think the lunar phases work?" but then I remembered how difficult it is has been to figure out the phases the few times I've tried to draw them on paper
Thank you China for continuing to advance humanityβs scientific prowess! Thank you, heroic workers and engineers and taikonauts of the Chinese space programme!
The dark side of the moon is just a way of calling it, it is only the side not visible but it has nothing dark about it, the sun illuminates generously and it was taken with a great camera, I assure you it is real.
it means the light of the sun will be on the back of the moon while the front of the moon still faces us. So a picture taken from behind the moon at that time would look like this
Of course, and you know that saying "the dark side of the moon" is just a way of referring to the hidden side? It's not dark at all, thanks to the sun, whose light is very generous.
There really is no dark side of the moon since sunlight gets to every side depending on its spin around the Earth. It's not tidy locked to the sun, it's tidily locked to the Earth. My point? Pink Floyd was wrong...
Now, if you posted this on Facebook, instead of some sensible questions about 'how is that side illuminated' there would be a loony bin of space denial, flat eartherism and religious ranting. I like it here π
Thanks for asking that question. Even though I knew that logically, the family of squirrels in my head were screaming, "Now hold up! It's not dark, so it's obviously fake!" Probably a good time to let them rest for the night
Possibly my favourite and most loved play I've seen is The far side of the Moon, by the extraordinary Robert Lapage. I saw it in 2001 and still dream with being able to see it once again one day... It was out of this world, profoundly beautiful. https://youtu.be/K_HI70pLYhc?si=NnNjFOJUnXbnSzNF
The pictures they show of the moon's sky should have the Earth taking up more of the sky than the moon does in ours because Earth is bigger.
These perspectives must be from tens of thousands of miles past the moon.
It's been observed, the 19th century belonged to the British, the 20th to the Americans, and the 21st century would belong to the Chinese. Seems to be playing out as predicted.
By 2050, or sooner, #China will be the 'leader' of the free world, because the #US won't be able to claim to be a part of it. The #US will be a dictatorship by then, probably under Barron #Trump.
Barron will definitely be sooner, Donald will be lucky to squeeze in 5 more years of air. It'll be an interesting day in #US history when he declares elections over, and his son as successor. Agree, China is racing ahead technologically, whether they share that technology, is another matter.
But that side of the moon is illuminated. Did you know that Dark Side Of The Moon remained in the top 100 for over 13 years straight and still sells 5000+ copies per day ???
The Moon always shows us the same side due to a phenomenon called "synchronous rotation" or "tidal locking." This means that the Moon takes exactly the same amount of time to rotate on its axis (rotation) as it takes to orbit the Earth (transition).
Apart from video and photographs we never see the other side of the moon. Only a handful of astronauts have done that. Let me know if you see it sometime π
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And telephoto??? If necessary, but I would expect a top dollar space probe to use optical systems with an absolute minimum of distortion.
Certainly surprised me
Ya know.
The fact that β¦as long as Manβs been Aware of itβ¦Itβs still There! And we see only that one side!
That gives my brain the βCoolβ vibes! πβπΌ
No, not really at all.
We are a tiny thing in an ocean of nothing. I like that.
Itβs an awesome image!
have a great everything
A pleasure chatting with you.
See you soon.
(Yes, I'm old enough to have watched it on TV)
"I think it's marvellous! HaHaHa!"π
Looks fake
Thank you for this glimpse of the other side. Wondering if this is what, Break out to the Other Side was about. By singer I can see in my head but at a loss without coffee to identify.
Earth is like a big slingshot that bends the path of asteroid right into the moon.
Great photo.
thereβs no magnetic field to attract ionic gases to the martian surface so theyβre just blown away by the solar wind
that's tire wash
Whole micro city below the surface
Didn't think that kind of info was out there for noncontactees
Also Mars? What are you referring to? There haven't been terrans on Mars since Montauk was sabotaged
If it makes one person giggle amongst the gloomy news, I'll be happy.
Thanks for sharing the photo, love this stuff.
I wish you a great night.π
A great night to you too, take care. π
Thanks for sharing!
Why is the surface of the side facing away from us so much less pock marked with impact craters?
This seems to defy scientific intuition. The inward facing side should be less exposed to impact, not more.
What's up with the moon?
Hmm. Maybe.
I wonder whether other planet-moon pairs display similarly.
Or if the geometry of our earth-moon pairing holds some probabalistic-physics uniqueness.
Could be a very interesting paper.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3lrnNUqTmGU
https://youtu.be/K_HI70pLYhc?si=NnNjFOJUnXbnSzNF
These perspectives must be from tens of thousands of miles past the moon.
I am a heretic, I know.
I had a hippy dippy teacher that played it for us claiming it would open our minds. π
I understand now.
It's not DARK?!
What the hell, man! Pink Floyd, you bastards.
It's hard to believe that the Moon is that much larger than the Earth.
I'll let myself out...
Which country is more inscrutable?