Exactly what do you think you are seeing in that image? A real photo of the whole earth? A composite of partial photos taken at low orbit? Complete cgi/artist rendering? Something else?
Here is a link to another “official” photo of earth and its moon supposedly taken from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) in 2016 at 127 million miles away. Yet remember, we can’t go back to the moon cuz it’s just too hard, according to NASA. “The amazing new photo [according to NASA] is actually a composite of two separate exposures taken to calibrate HiRISE, which is so powerful...” MY God, these people are shameless. Forget about that blazing sun allegedly 93 million miles from earth, that shines so brightly during the day here on earth— just darkness all around the earth and moon with no source of illumination to account for the ‘sunny sides’ in the MRO image and the image you posted.
https://www.space.com/35252-earth-and-moon-from-mars-photo.html
https://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/mro-earth-640x353.jpg
...or this shot of the earth from the moon (notice the shadow on earth is upturned when it should be a flat line or curved down):
https://www.ebay.com/itm/VIEW-EARTH-OVER-LUNAR-HORIZON-APOLLO-11-11X14-NASA-PHOTO-LG-007-/152120134094
...or this one where they at least got the shadow fixed:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/EARTH-VIEW-AS-LUNAR-MODULE-EAGLE-LEAVES-MOON-ON-APOLLO-11-8X10-PHOTO-EP-048/152087837613?_trkparms=aid%3D555018%26algo%3DPL.SIM%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D58655%26meid%3D01ff179cc5c44126b2b4070d1737ef3f%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D5%26rkt%3D12%26mehot%3Dag%26sd%3D162138824188%26itm%3D152087837613&_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851
and the creme de la creme from our Chinese space photoshop program:
https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/chinese-satellite-snaps-rare-photo-moon-s-far-side-earth-ncna969336
“Yet remember, we can’t go back to the moon cuz it’s just too hard, according to NASA.”
Lol wut? NASA is planning missions to return to the moon right now.
There is no question of it being “too hard” to return to the moon, it just costs a hell of a lot of money, and since we already went there a bunch of times and found a dead ball covered in dust, it’s not very easy to convince Congress that it is worth dumping billions of dollars into a program to do that again without some compelling reason.
“notice the shadow on earth is upturned when it should be a flat line or curved down”
Umm, the shadow is curved because you are looking at the terminus line, the point on the earth where the division between day and night occurs. Oh yeah, and that line appears curved because the earth is a SPHERE.
