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To: Boogieman
Where did you get that idea?

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.

146 posted on 06/24/2019 10:55:29 AM PDT by itsahoot (Welcome to the New USA where Islam is a religion of peace and Christianity is a mental disorder.)
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To: itsahoot
"From the NASA picture titled Earth Rise."

That photo was taken from a spacecraft, not from the lunar surface. Not sure how you would judge the apparent size of the earth viewed from the surface using a photo like that.

"I seem to recall one where the Earth is rising over the Flag they raised on the moon, how did they do that one?"

The only photo I can find fitting that description is this one:

https://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/a17/AS17-134-20384HR.jpg>

Seems like it is taken from below looking up.

"So no cameras on the moon then? Convenient."

No, we have taken cameras to the moon.

147 posted on 06/24/2019 11:43:30 AM PDT by Boogieman
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