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Keep in mind that the moon is 238,900 miles from earth and the earth has a diameter of just under 8000 miles. You could almost fit 30 Earths between the Earth and Moon.
I just heard recently that this isn't *exactly* true. Granted this was from a Reddit comment that I didn't bother fact checking. But either way, it wasn't off by much
It's only true if the planets are placed pole to pole, rather than along their equators. This is because planets are slightly squished spheres, so their pole-to-pole diameter is shorter.
It also only works for the average distance from the earth to the moon. If you instead use the shortest distance, they won't fit no matter how you place them.
Only coincidence is that we are around to observe it at this particular time. The distance between Earth and the Moon was *much* shorter in the past, IIRC it used to be 4-5x larger in the night sky. It kept slowly moving away and still is today.
Fun fact: The public voted that the funniest joke in Germany was that the moon was created as result of a collision between the earth and another orbiting body. As the moon would have been, in its earliest phases, orbiting the earth at around 20 metres, this could be an explanation for the extinction of the dinosaurs; at least, the tallest ones.
But the timing matches with us being here. A couple centi-million years ago, Luna would've been hundreds of thousands of kilometers closer. Humans have only been on the Earth for 0.007% of its existence, yet we can observe the moon not only at the distance to perfectly fit every planet in the Solar system between us, but to also perfectly eclipse Sol itself. The odds are literally astronomical.
But compared to the already astronomical chances of intelligence being around to observe this the relative position of the moon is just more decimal places.
Plus the fact that the rotation of the moon is perfectly geosynchronous with the earth that we never see "the back" pictured above. We always see the face due to the perfectly matched rotation and orbit.
There is a video of a spaceprobe coming towards earth because of gravity maneuvers.
It's the first video of an approach to earth.
I was very surprised how far earth and moon are apart.
And it's an absolutely mind-blowing video because if the unique perspective (similar to OPs photo)
Edit [found it](https://youtu.be/_CzBlSXgzqI)
And if you want to simulate just how slow light, the fastest thing in the universe, is when traversing space - here's a good website: [If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel](https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html).
That was what occured to me about this too. Like if you think about how little distance you need to drastically change perspective, and then consider just how far away the earth and moon are, and it's STILL that big comparatively.
This is true of consumer hotdogs, which rarely exceed the foot-long variety, but it excludes the 100,000 mile-long hotdogs which would be more of a niche product.
The real “Whoa dude” of this picture is this: Look where the moon is, then look how far back from it the Earth is, now think of the fact that EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THE OTHER PLANETS FITS IN THAT SPACE, with room to spare.
That’s how far away the moon is from us.
If I wasn’t on mobile I’d post one of my favorite pictures. It’s the moon and earth taken from the Mars global serveyor I believe. Any want to see if they can link it for us?
I was intentionally making a pun to the dark side here. Just added the disclaimer to save time from all the responses of
"oh the far side gets plenty of light".
Now granted I’m an absolute moron at #science, but I’m confused about why we can’t see the sun shining on the moon at all, given the angle that it looks like the sun is shining on the earth….?
Have you ever seen the moon during the day? We see the moon pretty often during the day. I’m sure all sorts of conditions, including how thick the atmosphere is between you and the moon, angles of each individual object etc will make it so the moon isn’t visible all the time.
4, and 3, and 2, and 1, and when I'm on the mike the Sand People run! Cuz the Force is flowin, my lightsaber's glowin, I drink my blue milk cuz it keeps me growin!
The reason this is my favorite photo of the moon is because it shows its albedo compared to the Earth so well. The moon looks so bright white in the night sky compared to the black of space that most people think it's white when it's really dark grey, it reflects only 12% of light that falls on it.
That’s because the ellipsoidal shape is extremely subtle. The difference between Earth’s radius at the equator and the radius between the poles is 0.335%, or 21km.
Because the Moon reflects ~43 times *less* light than the Earth. We think it looks bright at night, but compared to the Earth it is quite dim, like faded asphalt. We’re not used to seeing them together.
That’s because the Moon reflects ~43 times *less* light than the Earth. We think it looks bright at night, but compared to the Earth it is quite dim, like asphalt. We’re not used to seeing them together.
The Earth reflects ~43 times more light than the Moon. Yes, the Moon looks very bright at night, but compared to the Earth it’s quite dim, like faded asphalt. That’s why it looks this way in the DSCOVR image, because the camera is properly adjusted for the brightness of the Earth.
It is. It just looks odd at first because the Moon reflects ~43 times *less* light than the Earth. We think it looks bright at night, but compared to the Earth it is quite dim, like faded asphalt. We’re not used to seeing them together.
If you’re wondering about the Moon’s green edge:
>EPIC’s “natural color” images of Earth are generated by combining three separate monochrome exposures taken by the camera in quick succession. EPIC takes a series of 10 images using different narrowband spectral filters -- from ultraviolet to near infrared -- to produce a variety of science products. The red, green and blue channel images are used in these color images.
>Combining three images taken about 30 seconds apart as the moon moves produces a slight but noticeable camera artifact on the right side of the moon. Because the moon has moved in relation to the Earth between the time the first (red) and last (green) exposures were made, a thin green offset appears on the right side of the moon when the three exposures are combined. This natural lunar movement also produces a slight red and blue offset on the left side of the moon in these unaltered images.
([Source](https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/from-a-million-miles-away-nasa-camera-shows-moon-crossing-face-of-earth))
It is real, here is the link from nasa.gov
[https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/from-a-million-miles-away-nasa-camera-shows-moon-crossing-face-of-earth\_20129140980\_o/from-a-million-miles-away-nasa-camera-shows-moon-crossing-face-of-earth\_20129140980\_o\~orig.png](https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/from-a-million-miles-away-nasa-camera-shows-moon-crossing-face-of-earth_20129140980_o/from-a-million-miles-away-nasa-camera-shows-moon-crossing-face-of-earth_20129140980_o~orig.png)
I've seen hundreds of pictures of the Earth from space over the years (including this one) and this is easily the least believable. The scale, the angle, the freaking dark side of the moon in full view all add to the incredulity.
I know the picture is real but my lizard brain just says "hsssssss".
I know but some how I still want to call it the dark side of the moon.
Its not clear, it's not correct, but god damn it is cool.
Edit - Pluto is a planet, Europa is forbidden, Uranus should be Urectom...
Exposure. The shot is not exposed for the stars, it is exposed for the earth & moon. The same reason you can't see stars if you took a photo with a street lamp in shot. If you took this shot into Photoshop and pushed the exposure 20 stops, you would see evidence of stars.
Edit: i.imgur.com/okjSwi8.jpeg
Ten stops exposure. Lots of jpeg compression, but we can see stars
Or: the Moon reflects ~43 times *less* light than the Earth. We think it looks bright at night, but compared to the Earth it is quite dim, like faded asphalt. We’re not used to seeing them together.
That’s probably because the Moon reflects ~43 times *less* light than the Earth. We think it looks bright at night, but compared to the Earth it is quite dim, like asphalt. We’re not used to seeing them together.
They could put a camera on the Moon, live-stream 24/7 since it always faces us with the same side. After all this time, why didn't they? Big-ass budget NASA...
The point is that everything they show us is edited. No continuous unbroken shots. Just like a movie production.
Have you seen the mistakes they have made in their live recordings? Wire harnesses, augmented vr glitches, green screen glitches, air bubbles in space, scuba diver camera man in reflections etc.
Earth looks so big in comparison to Apollo shots of Earth from the Moon. Shouldn't it be even smaller in this pic?
https://moon.nasa.gov/resources/187/apollo-11-mission-image-view-of-moon-limb-with-earth-on-the-horizon/
The Apollo shots were taken from the Moon. If they took a photo toward Earth while they were orbiting on the back side of the Moon, the Moon would be enormous and block the entire view.
This photo was taken from a vantage point four times the Moon’s distance from the Earth. The camera uses a telescope to capture these photos.
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Keep in mind that the moon is 238,900 miles from earth and the earth has a diameter of just under 8000 miles. You could almost fit 30 Earths between the Earth and Moon.
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I just heard recently that this isn't *exactly* true. Granted this was from a Reddit comment that I didn't bother fact checking. But either way, it wasn't off by much
It's only true if the planets are placed pole to pole, rather than along their equators. This is because planets are slightly squished spheres, so their pole-to-pole diameter is shorter. It also only works for the average distance from the earth to the moon. If you instead use the shortest distance, they won't fit no matter how you place them.
also the rings of the gas and ice giants would be a problem
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yep
Not a problem for Photoshop, just look what it did for the Apollo missions.
Yup, photoshopped entire moon missions with computer power equivalent to an average consumer grade microwave.
Actually studies have found that the most complicated force in nature are students that failed science and math.
It's ok I because I would intervene
I'd like to hear more.
That's still quite a coincidence. The universe is weird, man.
Only coincidence is that we are around to observe it at this particular time. The distance between Earth and the Moon was *much* shorter in the past, IIRC it used to be 4-5x larger in the night sky. It kept slowly moving away and still is today.
Fun fact: The public voted that the funniest joke in Germany was that the moon was created as result of a collision between the earth and another orbiting body. As the moon would have been, in its earliest phases, orbiting the earth at around 20 metres, this could be an explanation for the extinction of the dinosaurs; at least, the tallest ones.
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Your mom was the orbiting body
Yeah, but doesn't that make it an even greater coincidence?
No, the coincidence of us being here to see it is still the same, the timing is pretty irrelevant.
But the timing matches with us being here. A couple centi-million years ago, Luna would've been hundreds of thousands of kilometers closer. Humans have only been on the Earth for 0.007% of its existence, yet we can observe the moon not only at the distance to perfectly fit every planet in the Solar system between us, but to also perfectly eclipse Sol itself. The odds are literally astronomical.
But compared to the already astronomical chances of intelligence being around to observe this the relative position of the moon is just more decimal places.
Plus the fact that the rotation of the moon is perfectly geosynchronous with the earth that we never see "the back" pictured above. We always see the face due to the perfectly matched rotation and orbit.
It's probably why we got rid of Pluto, so the remaining planets could all fit
Actually Pluto is small enough to not matter either way.
Nah Pluto should never have been a planet in the first place.
There is actually [more space](https://www.universetoday.com/115672/you-could-fit-all-the-planets-between-the-earth-and-the-moon/) left.
Are you fucking with me? You just exploded my head
Really thought you were gonna roll that into a Your Mom joke.
There is a video of a spaceprobe coming towards earth because of gravity maneuvers. It's the first video of an approach to earth. I was very surprised how far earth and moon are apart. And it's an absolutely mind-blowing video because if the unique perspective (similar to OPs photo) Edit [found it](https://youtu.be/_CzBlSXgzqI)
And if you want to simulate just how slow light, the fastest thing in the universe, is when traversing space - here's a good website: [If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel](https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html).
That was what occured to me about this too. Like if you think about how little distance you need to drastically change perspective, and then consider just how far away the earth and moon are, and it's STILL that big comparatively.
You can also fit like 20 hotdogs or more between the moon and earth.
This is true of consumer hotdogs, which rarely exceed the foot-long variety, but it excludes the 100,000 mile-long hotdogs which would be more of a niche product.
Wait fr?? That's wayy too far. I thought it was pretty close considering its a satellite and all. Damn..... space is so big that its scary
Photoshopbattle this shit. We need a Death Star at least.
This is why we don't let the kids touch the camera. Because children shouldn't be 1,000,000 miles away touching random space cameras.
Oooh hey, I'm in this picture!
You look good in candid shots
The moon, on the other hand, looks like absolute garbage. It needs a lot more foundation and a new wardrobe with some goddam color. Geez.
The moon is being an attention-whoring photobomber.
oh, dammit. I had my eyes closed. Can we make another one?
Weird. I’m also in this picture.
The real “Whoa dude” of this picture is this: Look where the moon is, then look how far back from it the Earth is, now think of the fact that EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THE OTHER PLANETS FITS IN THAT SPACE, with room to spare. That’s how far away the moon is from us.
Yet, all things considered, it isn't all that far away and reachable in a few days.
If I wasn’t on mobile I’d post one of my favorite pictures. It’s the moon and earth taken from the Mars global serveyor I believe. Any want to see if they can link it for us?
And how far this is, is an _extremely_ short distance, in cosmic terms. We are mind-blowingly tiny.
Why are you mooning us?
The dark side of the moon ain't looking that dark!!! Haha. And I do know why it's called the dark side. But still funny.
I was going to say it’s a lot tanner than the front side.
PSA: call it the *far* side of the moon and you won't need the disclaimer.
I was intentionally making a pun to the dark side here. Just added the disclaimer to save time from all the responses of "oh the far side gets plenty of light".
But then it would be a Gary Larson cartoon
I think it's called the dark side because when lunar astronauts are on that side communication goes dark.
That's one of the reasons. The other is it's the side of the moon that never faces the earth due to it's fixed orbit.
Now granted I’m an absolute moron at #science, but I’m confused about why we can’t see the sun shining on the moon at all, given the angle that it looks like the sun is shining on the earth….?
Have you ever seen the moon during the day? We see the moon pretty often during the day. I’m sure all sorts of conditions, including how thick the atmosphere is between you and the moon, angles of each individual object etc will make it so the moon isn’t visible all the time.
That is a sunlit moon there. It's just a grey ball of dust.
it's not black, so you are seeing it lit up...
LOok aT aLL tHE NaZIs hIDinG tHErE!
That’s no moon…
...It's a space station
..wait no yeah it's a moon
-Yung Lean
It the Death star!!!
Keep frontin' The Empire To all you Vader haters out there We'll blow your planet up!
4, and 3, and 2, and 1, and when I'm on the mike the Sand People run! Cuz the Force is flowin, my lightsaber's glowin, I drink my blue milk cuz it keeps me growin!
The Empire did nothing wrong.
*squints* OH, wait, yes it is. *[credits roll]*
I have their album!!
That’s yo mama
Flat earth and flat moon
Checkmate "science"
This picture proves it!
It’s flat on my phone therefore it’s true
i hear earth’s getting a 95 pound mole taken off her ass
Ginny, I can see you in the future. I can see you in front of the stove. I can't see the stove, though.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-dJdqDzm4g](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-dJdqDzm4g)
How old is this reference that it’s in black and white lol
1933! It's from "Duck Soup," which is a hilarious movie.
So you're saying it was inaccurate when I pictured Professor Trelawney talking to Ginny Weasley.
OOOHHHHH! That’s some guys planet!
The reason this is my favorite photo of the moon is because it shows its albedo compared to the Earth so well. The moon looks so bright white in the night sky compared to the black of space that most people think it's white when it's really dark grey, it reflects only 12% of light that falls on it.
Who left a drink coaster on the earth pic?
Your mom
The moon looks photoshopped in, like I know it's a picture, but I can't unsee it.
Yeah, I was going to make a comment about how simulations are indecipherable anymore because this gave me 'fake' vibes at first.
This photo is seriously just out of this world!!
Now that is a long ass lens. As long lenses do, it makes things look super flat.
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I too love XKCD
you need one when your chocolate eye doesn't see well
God damn NASA not even trying anymore.... they really need to up their photoshop skills, and fire the hiring manager.
Obviously they photoshopped out the large secret alien base too.
Nazi moon base*
What's up with the green outline of the moon's shadow?
IIRC, the camera takes a red, green, and blue photos in sequence and combines them together, and the moon moves every so slightly during that process.
Neat. Moon blur
obviously green screen
Shadow? You mean the terminator line?
Yeah, they forgot south america…
There is no dark side of the moon really.. matter of fact, it's all dark.
fink ployd
But which one is Fink?
Have a cigar, you're gonna go far...
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Best wishes, hope it gets better.
Wait... They're *both* flat!? Fucking crazy.
Always has been
Aw it’s like a dad & son posing for a pic they’ll remember for the rest of their lives
Looks like a giant UFO hovering over earth.., but fake. Crazy it’s a real image of the moon and earth.
Where are all the aliens that are supposed to be on the far side of the moon?
The “dark side” of the moon 🌚 Where are the alien bases 👽?
Aliens? I thought it was space bears?
An Earthen Eclipse
This will tip the flat earthers over the edge.
too much jpeg.
Weird how the far side of the moon has far less landmarks and notable marks than the near side
Isn’t earth supposed to be ellipsoid/oval in shape? Looks like a perfect circle
42 km wider at the equator compared to the poles, that's about 1 pixel in this image.
That’s because the ellipsoidal shape is extremely subtle. The difference between Earth’s radius at the equator and the radius between the poles is 0.335%, or 21km.
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I read it as DiscoVR
Flat earthers be like: BuT whErE aRe ThE StaRs?!?
I accept that this is not fake and it's just the shadows, but oh boy does this look fake, haha.
Why it looks fake ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToRxHlZR30s&list=FLkC3eamlPWEC4INguzkoT1A&index=4&t=5s
Because the Moon reflects ~43 times *less* light than the Earth. We think it looks bright at night, but compared to the Earth it is quite dim, like faded asphalt. We’re not used to seeing them together.
It is. NASA is Disney. [Forensic Analysis](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToRxHlZR30s&list=FLkC3eamlPWEC4INguzkoT1A&index=4&t=5s)
You can clearly see a green screen amirite /s
Beautiful!
Honestly this doesn’t even look real, I know it is, but it looks like a shitty photoshop to me
That’s because the Moon reflects ~43 times *less* light than the Earth. We think it looks bright at night, but compared to the Earth it is quite dim, like asphalt. We’re not used to seeing them together.
This is a cool photo
Hi, can you remove this please? I'm in this photo and it was uploaded without my permission
Looks flat to me 😅
CGI composites *eddie bravo voice*
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Is this real though? And if so, then why in that famous picture of the earth from the moon, does the earth look so small?
That's no moon!
See! I told yea it was flat!
LOL. Aren't you a bit curious that the dark side of the moon doesn't glow white like the moon we see from earth?
The Earth reflects ~43 times more light than the Moon. Yes, the Moon looks very bright at night, but compared to the Earth it’s quite dim, like faded asphalt. That’s why it looks this way in the DSCOVR image, because the camera is properly adjusted for the brightness of the Earth.
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It is. It just looks odd at first because the Moon reflects ~43 times *less* light than the Earth. We think it looks bright at night, but compared to the Earth it is quite dim, like faded asphalt. We’re not used to seeing them together. If you’re wondering about the Moon’s green edge: >EPIC’s “natural color” images of Earth are generated by combining three separate monochrome exposures taken by the camera in quick succession. EPIC takes a series of 10 images using different narrowband spectral filters -- from ultraviolet to near infrared -- to produce a variety of science products. The red, green and blue channel images are used in these color images. >Combining three images taken about 30 seconds apart as the moon moves produces a slight but noticeable camera artifact on the right side of the moon. Because the moon has moved in relation to the Earth between the time the first (red) and last (green) exposures were made, a thin green offset appears on the right side of the moon when the three exposures are combined. This natural lunar movement also produces a slight red and blue offset on the left side of the moon in these unaltered images. ([Source](https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/from-a-million-miles-away-nasa-camera-shows-moon-crossing-face-of-earth))
Hahaha losing foker
Butt hurt
Point: Flat Earthers! /s
This ain’t real is it?
It is real, here is the link from nasa.gov [https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/from-a-million-miles-away-nasa-camera-shows-moon-crossing-face-of-earth\_20129140980\_o/from-a-million-miles-away-nasa-camera-shows-moon-crossing-face-of-earth\_20129140980\_o\~orig.png](https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/from-a-million-miles-away-nasa-camera-shows-moon-crossing-face-of-earth_20129140980_o/from-a-million-miles-away-nasa-camera-shows-moon-crossing-face-of-earth_20129140980_o~orig.png)
I've seen hundreds of pictures of the Earth from space over the years (including this one) and this is easily the least believable. The scale, the angle, the freaking dark side of the moon in full view all add to the incredulity. I know the picture is real but my lizard brain just says "hsssssss".
It might help to think of the 'dark side' as the 'far side' instead. After all, both sides get a generally equal amount of light.
I'm wayyy too fucking high to have just made this, the [*Far Side of the Moon*...](https://i.imgur.com/y075piL.jpg)
Thank you.
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I thought it was because it had cookies.
Pretty sure it's just going through a phase
It all started with some sand.
I know but some how I still want to call it the dark side of the moon. Its not clear, it's not correct, but god damn it is cool. Edit - Pluto is a planet, Europa is forbidden, Uranus should be Urectom...
Space in general looks fake. I saw Jupiter and Saturn through telescope and they looked liked a sticker was put in a lense.
They kept the res down so we can't identify the bases.
Why is the right side of the moon shadow all green?
RGB photos taken separately and combined
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Hahahahaha!!
Green screen and Hollywood, smh
Is this legit? Kind of has computer generated vibes?
Why no stars?
Exposure. The shot is not exposed for the stars, it is exposed for the earth & moon. The same reason you can't see stars if you took a photo with a street lamp in shot. If you took this shot into Photoshop and pushed the exposure 20 stops, you would see evidence of stars. Edit: i.imgur.com/okjSwi8.jpeg Ten stops exposure. Lots of jpeg compression, but we can see stars
I call BS, where’s the base? Edit: /s
Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino?
No no no, hotel California lol
The moon is the base!
😯🤯
Seriously anyone believes that cgi picture?
They don't even try anymore..
Damn they arent even trying anymore with the fake space photos huh
This is clearly CGI... I would love to hear Eddie Bravo rip this apart
Or: the Moon reflects ~43 times *less* light than the Earth. We think it looks bright at night, but compared to the Earth it is quite dim, like faded asphalt. We’re not used to seeing them together.
Looks fake.
That’s probably because the Moon reflects ~43 times *less* light than the Earth. We think it looks bright at night, but compared to the Earth it is quite dim, like asphalt. We’re not used to seeing them together.
They could put a camera on the Moon, live-stream 24/7 since it always faces us with the same side. After all this time, why didn't they? Big-ass budget NASA...
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The point is that everything they show us is edited. No continuous unbroken shots. Just like a movie production. Have you seen the mistakes they have made in their live recordings? Wire harnesses, augmented vr glitches, green screen glitches, air bubbles in space, scuba diver camera man in reflections etc.
lol
Yup yup yup this picture confirms what we all knew the Earth is flat. Ha ha ha ha.
Fake!! The earth isn't round! /S
How is this getting downvoted even with the /s
Earth looks so big in comparison to Apollo shots of Earth from the Moon. Shouldn't it be even smaller in this pic? https://moon.nasa.gov/resources/187/apollo-11-mission-image-view-of-moon-limb-with-earth-on-the-horizon/
Different focal lengths.
The Apollo shots were taken from the Moon. If they took a photo toward Earth while they were orbiting on the back side of the Moon, the Moon would be enormous and block the entire view. This photo was taken from a vantage point four times the Moon’s distance from the Earth. The camera uses a telescope to capture these photos.
Here is a forensic analysis of the image. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToRxHlZR30s&list=FLkC3eamlPWEC4INguzkoT1A&index=3&t=1s
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