“Why does the earth appear to be the same relative size from the moon as the moon does from earth?”
Where did you get that idea?
“Since the moon always present the same face to the earth sort of like a ball on a string why would the earth appear any where except directly over head from near the center of the moon face?”
Well, the moon wobbles a bit, so the earth appears overhead but it does move around a little. All the pictures of “earthrises”, however, are taken from lunar orbiters, not from the lunar surface. It’s the motion of the spacecraft travelling around the moon that makes the earth appear to rise, not the relative motion of the earth and moon.
From the NASA picture titled Earth Rise.
It’s the motion of the spacecraft travelling around the moon that makes the earth appear to rise, not the relative motion of the earth and moon.
I seem to recall one where the Earth is rising over the Flag they raised on the moon, how did they do that one?
So no cameras on the moon then? Convenient. We have the greatest observation satellite in our system and not a single camera there to take pictures. Oh well. Or maybe we do and they are just super secret operations reserved to military.