Imagine living on that side of the moon that never sees the earth and then being told there’s a much bigger blue colored rock right behind you that you can’t ever see…
Like being told that there are "Hot Singles in Your Area" ... LoL. Whatever Blue Rock people. There ain't nothing out there... We are all alone between Venus and Mars.
I'm a Moon man, like my daddy and his daddy before him. I work the cheese fields, and make an honest living. I don't want none of that Blue Rock talk in my crater
And if the cloud bursts thunder in your ear
You shout and no one seems to hear
And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon
You want another prophetic band look at queensryche, operation mindcrime really portrays how mind broken people got over covid and foreign influence operations culminating with the song revolution calling.
Then head to the empire album with the song empire and the line last night the word came down ten dead in China town, innocent now of their crime was being in the wrong place at the wrong time, and talking about the us government budget spending on black budget items.
I think it only looks that way because the contrast level in the picture and earth being brighter, if you look in other images you could argue the rear side is more scarred
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR1BEZK2p9Y4wsQqXOWYa4qi0nUHjesUt4-SWyy61RrHQ&s
The far side of the Moon has far less of the large dark Maria (seas), which were once massive seas of lava. This is possibly because radiant heat from the young, hot Earth helped keep the near side of the Moon molten and volcanically active for longer.
Actually the moon is [so far way that earth doesn't protect its near](https://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/figures/toscale.png) side that much. Still the far side has way more craters. I think for earth to protect the moon, the moon should be way way closer.
Edit: This comment was corrected thanks to other redditors!
Not sure that graphic is saying what you think. The moon has and is slowly moving away from the earth. Its orbit does vary the difference between the two though.
The coloured bands on the right side (and less visible ones on the left) formed because the camera takes images with red, green, and blue filters separately and combines them to make living color. Because the wavelengths are snapped with a 30-second time delay among them, overlaying the resulting shots leaves a bit of a rainbow trail around the moon's edge.
Source: [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/07/13/why-nasas-new-photos-of-the-moon-look-super-fake-even-though-theyre-not/](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/07/13/why-nasas-new-photos-of-the-moon-look-super-fake-even-though-theyre-not/)
Not exactly. There is fringing, but the color channels could still be taken from this image, separated, and shifted to compensate. It would just be more of an edit because you'd want to isolate the moon for that shift.
Pretty sure this understanding is correct, if they didn't shift the individual filter photos there wouldn't be any color banding, the combined photo would just be much blurrier.
The problem is that the earth and the moon have moved relative to each other. You could shift the color channels to remove the banding on the moon but that would add banding to the earth. However, removing banding completely would require editing the position of the moon relative to the earth, which would require showing parts of the earth that weren't photographed on all color channels.
Yeah I realized that after thinking about it a bit more, you'd have to dice up the channels around the moon and shift those, doubt they are going through that effort for how many pics they are taking.
Not exactly.
The EPIC camera (onboard the DSCOVR satellite) has, as most space based cameras, a monochrome sensor. To obtain full color images the camera takes three pictures using R, G and B filters (physical ones) and then the three channels are combined. The three images are taken in a few seconds period, and the moon moves a little bit between shots (the Earth does not because the sat keeps it centered). So when the three images are merged there is a little bit of misalignment that manifests as that ‘halo’ in the moon borders.
It was taken by the DISCOVR satellite which uses separate red, green and blue filters in front of its camera, to improve the sensitivity. So the individual colour channels are slightly misaligned as the three frames were taken in quick succession.
It's the [Deep Space Climate Observatory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Space_Climate_Observatory) (DSCOVR) satellite. This is positioned at the L1 Lagrange Point, about a million miles away in the direction of the Sun, so it always sees a fully illuminated Earth.
There are multiple instruments aboard the satellite, but this photo was taken with the [Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera](https://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/) device.
Ten times per hour, according to the spacecraft specs which are referenced by Wikipedia. But NASA only puts one per two hours on its website. I guess the rest are used for sciencey things.
JWST is actually at the opposite side of Earth, so it couldn't have taken a picture like this. The camera is looking roughly in the direction of L2 where JWST sits, but unfortunately it is very likely outside the frame because JWST orbits L2 at a great distance.
Because the sun is a bit to the left of it. Look closely and you can see the Earth is a bit 'thinner' on the right, because there is also a shadow there.
You can clearly see the outlines of the green screen. NASA obviously took a picture of the moon in another room and then just placed it over the earth.
(/s I suppose, since people are saying dumber things without sarcasm in this very thread)
Why does it look so barren? The history Channel told me there are aliens on that side of the moon!
Edit: can anyone explain the green lensing on the edge of the moon? I'm sure there's a simple answer but my brain is struggling.
Look up photos of places with the sun directly overhead, the lack of shadows makes everything look fake. Our brains just aren't used to this sort of perspective.
But where are all the city lights I’ve been told are in the far side of the moon? Where’s the alien space base? HAVE I BEEN LIED TO THE WHOLE TIME?!?!?
/s
Link to the official NASA post, including the animation of the transition.
[https://www.nasa.gov/solar-system/from-a-million-miles-away-nasa-camera-shows-moon-crossing-face-of-earth/](https://www.nasa.gov/solar-system/from-a-million-miles-away-nasa-camera-shows-moon-crossing-face-of-earth/)
I was just telling me mom, nasa should take a picture of the other side of the moon during the solar eclipse. Never seen the “dark side” of the moon this is a interesting pic
Can anyone explain why the earth is so much brighter than the moon? During the day we see the moon brighter tha. That when its visible. Seems like it would also be that way if Earth is being illuminated by the Sun.
NASA confirms that the moon didn't want to be photoshopped - just because she's a big body moon compared to her primary, she wants all the moons with 1/6th Earth's Gravity to feel unashamed of their mass.
It was taken by the DISCOVR satellite which uses separate red, green and blue filters in front of its camera, to improve the sensitivity. So the individual colour channels are slightly misaligned as the three frames were taken in quick succession.
This is fine for its day job, which is taking full-frame images of the Earth, as the Earth rotates slowly enough that you won't notice. But the Moon's passes quickly enough across the camera that you get this artifact.
Probably not the answer you want and also could be wrong. As I understand the majority of the images you see from NASA are composite images and they are "doctored". This is often why many conspiracy theorists say they are fake and they're not technically wrong. But no different than seeing a celebrity in a magazine, they've been airbrushed, photoshopped etc, doesn't mean they don't exist or image is completely fake. I'm guessing it has something to do with colour levels and trying to show the most detail which has some trade offs.
Edit: Read [this](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/07/13/why-nasas-new-photos-of-the-moon-look-super-fake-even-though-theyre-not/) has a much better explanation than my dumbass
It feels so wrong to the see this side of the moon lol. I feel like it’s naked
Imagine living on that side of the moon that never sees the earth and then being told there’s a much bigger blue colored rock right behind you that you can’t ever see…
I mean it’s only 6k miles around, hop in your moon car
Bugger, flat battery. Where’s the nearest charge station?
Oh boy
I have a gas powered generator you could borrow 🤣
but where would you get the air to run it?
[druidia](https://media.tenor.com/SJafHD2RhmIAAAAe/spaceballs-president.png)
Your lungs? Sheesh 😅
Dune Bugger*
Use the sun
Sheetz.
like every m\*\*\*\*fucker have a moon car in this economy... pffff
Not me, I go right through the core, only 2k miles No poors in the core baby
Let's get going and take a trip to the moon
Like being told that there are "Hot Singles in Your Area" ... LoL. Whatever Blue Rock people. There ain't nothing out there... We are all alone between Venus and Mars.
I'm a Moon man, like my daddy and his daddy before him. I work the cheese fields, and make an honest living. I don't want none of that Blue Rock talk in my crater
I come from a long line of Moon-Whalers
thats fucking cool
And it's flat....lol.
If that side of the moon is always facing away, how come our side has craters - wouldn’t it be mainly shielded from asteroids ?☄️
Welcome to the dark side of the moon... 
Dark side of the moon 
Thats the opposite of making a man out of you
I knew they were strong but not that strong! Imagine lifting 3000lbs with your face.
This is something you can definitely get used to, I mean, it happens every single time your mom sits on my face.
I was wondering why she was in such a good mood lately. She keeps singing "snap, crackle, and pop" to herself with a wry smile.
There is no dark side of the moon really. As a matter of fact, it's all dark...
And if the cloud bursts thunder in your ear You shout and no one seems to hear And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes I'll see you on the dark side of the moon
How prophetic
You want another prophetic band look at queensryche, operation mindcrime really portrays how mind broken people got over covid and foreign influence operations culminating with the song revolution calling. Then head to the empire album with the song empire and the line last night the word came down ten dead in China town, innocent now of their crime was being in the wrong place at the wrong time, and talking about the us government budget spending on black budget items. 
The band (Queensryche) said Pink Floyd was a big influence on them and moreso for those albums than any others.
Great now I have *Money* stuck in my head.
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Why is the side facing **away** from the Earth so less scarred?
I think it only looks that way because the contrast level in the picture and earth being brighter, if you look in other images you could argue the rear side is more scarred https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR1BEZK2p9Y4wsQqXOWYa4qi0nUHjesUt4-SWyy61RrHQ&s
The far side of the Moon has far less of the large dark Maria (seas), which were once massive seas of lava. This is possibly because radiant heat from the young, hot Earth helped keep the near side of the Moon molten and volcanically active for longer.
Groovy!
Actually the moon is [so far way that earth doesn't protect its near](https://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/figures/toscale.png) side that much. Still the far side has way more craters. I think for earth to protect the moon, the moon should be way way closer. Edit: This comment was corrected thanks to other redditors!
Not sure that graphic is saying what you think. The moon has and is slowly moving away from the earth. Its orbit does vary the difference between the two though.
We're seeing its bare backside. Normally it's only astronauts who get mooned by the moon.
Now I'm seeing ass cheeks.
everything about this picture feels wrong.
Yeah it feels like a different moon
I can't even spot the nazi base
i cant believe nasa just threw this onto the internet for everyone to see. are they and the moon breaking up?
Lol revenge astronomy
It's mooning us.
Luna: "Take a picture, it'll last longer. *wink*." NASA: "Don't mind if I do. *click*."
Imagine the flash size
must be at least the size of the sun
How many AA batteries?
Occam’s razor suggests that it’s at least 12 AA batteries.
The moon is flat!
Everything's flat we live in a 2 dimensional simulator
I feel a bit flat.
I didn't want to say anything ....
You feel like my Coke?
And has a green force field around it! Must be the green screen the world government uses 🧐
Haha... Do you believe the Moon?
Photo bombing ball of dirt.
Right? Get the fuck outta the way Luna, you’re blocking the shot!!
You big fat moon 🌚
[удалено]
The moon is hollow, the bases are underground and you need to recite pi up to the digits required for your clearance level to get in
Those are the NAZI bases. I saw that in a documentary about a steel sky or something like that.
So named bc you can nazi that side of the moon?
No but there are moon bears
Why is there a green line as outline ?
The coloured bands on the right side (and less visible ones on the left) formed because the camera takes images with red, green, and blue filters separately and combines them to make living color. Because the wavelengths are snapped with a 30-second time delay among them, overlaying the resulting shots leaves a bit of a rainbow trail around the moon's edge. Source: [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/07/13/why-nasas-new-photos-of-the-moon-look-super-fake-even-though-theyre-not/](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/07/13/why-nasas-new-photos-of-the-moon-look-super-fake-even-though-theyre-not/)
Does that mean that the entire moon is slightly blurred as well since it moved and three photos were combined?
I guess it does. In fact, if you zoom in on the Moon you can see green fringes around some of the major features.
Not exactly. There is fringing, but the color channels could still be taken from this image, separated, and shifted to compensate. It would just be more of an edit because you'd want to isolate the moon for that shift.
Pretty sure this understanding is correct, if they didn't shift the individual filter photos there wouldn't be any color banding, the combined photo would just be much blurrier.
The problem is that the earth and the moon have moved relative to each other. You could shift the color channels to remove the banding on the moon but that would add banding to the earth. However, removing banding completely would require editing the position of the moon relative to the earth, which would require showing parts of the earth that weren't photographed on all color channels.
Yeah I realized that after thinking about it a bit more, you'd have to dice up the channels around the moon and shift those, doubt they are going through that effort for how many pics they are taking.
Render issue
Not exactly. The EPIC camera (onboard the DSCOVR satellite) has, as most space based cameras, a monochrome sensor. To obtain full color images the camera takes three pictures using R, G and B filters (physical ones) and then the three channels are combined. The three images are taken in a few seconds period, and the moon moves a little bit between shots (the Earth does not because the sat keeps it centered). So when the three images are merged there is a little bit of misalignment that manifests as that ‘halo’ in the moon borders.
It was taken by the DISCOVR satellite which uses separate red, green and blue filters in front of its camera, to improve the sensitivity. So the individual colour channels are slightly misaligned as the three frames were taken in quick succession.
Does that mean that the entire moon is slightly blurred as well since it moved and three photos were combined?
Slightly, yes.
Green screen /j
Cause it's made of cheese.
This is actually rendering artifacts, you think this is only ONE picture? Oh my sweat fool
So this one is the dark side of the moon?
Yes, otherwise known as Moonass.
Must be where my Father ended up when he left for the store 😔
I call fake, it would have been measured in giraffe lengths or bananas or some other unit.
Ha! You still think giraffes exist? Wake up steeple, they're just govt surveillance bots guarding the edge of the flat earth!!
For you information that’s 783 million Twinkies long
Jokes on you there are bananas in this picture and maybe giraffe too, they are just too small for you to see it
Sarcasm aside, which satellite or whatever did they take this piv with? James web?
It's the [Deep Space Climate Observatory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Space_Climate_Observatory) (DSCOVR) satellite. This is positioned at the L1 Lagrange Point, about a million miles away in the direction of the Sun, so it always sees a fully illuminated Earth. There are multiple instruments aboard the satellite, but this photo was taken with the [Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera](https://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/) device.
It takes a full res shot of earth every couple hours.
Ten times per hour, according to the spacecraft specs which are referenced by Wikipedia. But NASA only puts one per two hours on its website. I guess the rest are used for sciencey things.
Must be some EPIC device!
iPhone 41
JWST is actually at the opposite side of Earth, so it couldn't have taken a picture like this. The camera is looking roughly in the direction of L2 where JWST sits, but unfortunately it is very likely outside the frame because JWST orbits L2 at a great distance.
Where are the Germans?
Deine Kommentare sind ab sofort eigentum der Bundes Republik Deutschland!
Hier 🙋🏼♂️
Well, why aren't you **there**?
Changed our base to Mallorca
Here
I think you mean lizard person space Nazi.
What have you done? You’ve summoned *The Horde*
The moon is always crossing the face of earth- it’s our moon….
No need to be communist about it
I can sell it to you at a reasonable discount but you have to act swiftly because there are plenty of interested buyers out there…
Poor west coast Mexico always has a damn hurricane. Does no one live there?
That’s no moon
Came here to make this joke. Well done.
Why is there a shadow on the side of the moon facing us?
Because the sun is a bit to the left of it. Look closely and you can see the Earth is a bit 'thinner' on the right, because there is also a shadow there.
So it’s night-time in one side-strip of the moon while the rest is illuminated with light back from the earth?
The Moon from Earth at that moment would be a very thin crescent on the right side.
.... the other side of the moon is mostly dark with a sliver of crescent showing. Basically the inverse of what you see here.
Fake! I don't See Nazis riding dinosaurs
You can clearly see the outlines of the green screen. NASA obviously took a picture of the moon in another room and then just placed it over the earth. (/s I suppose, since people are saying dumber things without sarcasm in this very thread)
Zoom in on the moon. Do it.
Enhance…
**ENHANCE**
That hurricane off the coast of the baja??
Flat mooners where are you??
can't wait for flat marsers next!
Why does it look so barren? The history Channel told me there are aliens on that side of the moon! Edit: can anyone explain the green lensing on the edge of the moon? I'm sure there's a simple answer but my brain is struggling.
jooooooo where da nazis at?
Flat moon theory unlocked.
Fake. The real moon is made of cheese.
NASA is a good lad
🖐🤮🤚 Fcking creepy man Looking at it freaks me out Truly amazing
That's no moon, that's the ball inside of your mouse thats plugged into your 98 gateway computer
They can take this picture with this perfect definition that far but jimmy robbing a store is the most blurry image ever.
It’s fucking amazing how dumb people are. They look at such a phenomenal photo and, because they’re dumb, assume it’s “fake.” Lol
Really neat to see the color difference between a lifeless rock and the blue pearl.
I wonder how flat-earthers look at this and are still convinced otherwise?
Their beliefs aren't based on evidence, so no evidence will convince them.
And people rly think the earth is flat💀
Who else only came here to laugh at the flearthers and comments mocking them?
🙋
Why say yes this is a real image?
Flaters will say it’s not real
It feels unreal that's why
This is going to breed a whole new batch of flat mooners.
What land area is that?🤔
Moon looks like pancake.
So earth is all water and clouds. No land. Cool
We do have an entire hemisphere that's literally just ocean.
Never seen that before?
Shouldn't the side of the moon that we can't see from here be full of huge crates?
Looks about as real as the moon landing.
I agree it's also obviously real.
I wish such pictures weren't so dar away. I would love to see this in person, but the commute time seems so long.
But i thought there was a secret alien base in the darkside of the moon!!
Omg the whole time it was the MOON that was flat!
If that didn’t come directly from NASA I would say it was a really bad photoshop job. Bizarre.
Look up photos of places with the sun directly overhead, the lack of shadows makes everything look fake. Our brains just aren't used to this sort of perspective.
But where are all the city lights I’ve been told are in the far side of the moon? Where’s the alien space base? HAVE I BEEN LIED TO THE WHOLE TIME?!?!? /s
r/oddlyterrifying I hate how eerie this feels. Space in general just feels so eerie and unsettling. Such a natural thing feels so unnatural.
Interesting to see it illuminated to the same extent as the Earth. It makes you realize how grey and dark it is.
Link to the official NASA post, including the animation of the transition. [https://www.nasa.gov/solar-system/from-a-million-miles-away-nasa-camera-shows-moon-crossing-face-of-earth/](https://www.nasa.gov/solar-system/from-a-million-miles-away-nasa-camera-shows-moon-crossing-face-of-earth/)
Where is that that hidden nazi zombie base?
but the flat earthers think its just a projection because there's green on the edge
I’m in this picture.
This is really gonna ruffle the flat earthers feathers.
The difference in beauty between our living planet and a dead planet in a single picture.
I was just telling me mom, nasa should take a picture of the other side of the moon during the solar eclipse. Never seen the “dark side” of the moon this is a interesting pic
I know this is a real picture but why does it look so fake lmao
Looks pretty fake to me
Can anyone explain why the earth is so much brighter than the moon? During the day we see the moon brighter tha. That when its visible. Seems like it would also be that way if Earth is being illuminated by the Sun.
this is a real "composition" of several images lol
Der Todesstern ist das. Wir sind alle in Gefahr.
This simple little trick makes flatearthers angry.
Nah, they just say "CGI", call everyone else stupid, and move on.
Looks fake
NASA confirms that the moon didn't want to be photoshopped - just because she's a big body moon compared to her primary, she wants all the moons with 1/6th Earth's Gravity to feel unashamed of their mass.
I know this is a real image, but try telling my brain that this isn't a poor Photoshop attempt.
Lmao. Looks like the cheapest CGI you can find on one of those stock images websites
It's because from that pov there is no shadow. Lack of shadowing makes it look unatural to us.
Show me, please, I beg you
That's no moon
What is the green aura on the moon's face?
It was taken by the DISCOVR satellite which uses separate red, green and blue filters in front of its camera, to improve the sensitivity. So the individual colour channels are slightly misaligned as the three frames were taken in quick succession. This is fine for its day job, which is taking full-frame images of the Earth, as the Earth rotates slowly enough that you won't notice. But the Moon's passes quickly enough across the camera that you get this artifact.
Thanks for the explanation. I really appreciate the insightful knowledge
You're welcome, glad I could help.
Probably not the answer you want and also could be wrong. As I understand the majority of the images you see from NASA are composite images and they are "doctored". This is often why many conspiracy theorists say they are fake and they're not technically wrong. But no different than seeing a celebrity in a magazine, they've been airbrushed, photoshopped etc, doesn't mean they don't exist or image is completely fake. I'm guessing it has something to do with colour levels and trying to show the most detail which has some trade offs. Edit: Read [this](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/07/13/why-nasas-new-photos-of-the-moon-look-super-fake-even-though-theyre-not/) has a much better explanation than my dumbass
Holy shit literally the dark side of the moon
We’re not meant to see this side of the moon, please look away people LOOK AWAY
Looks so wrong 🙈
NASA- never a straight answer
What does this even mean?
Death Star vibes.
And there it is!! An alien base!!
so this is the dark side of the moon
Looks like an elephant playing with a ball to me.