Posted on 07/22/2023 1:31:09 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: A photograph of Buzz Aldrin standing on the Moon taken by Neil Armstrong, was digitally reversed to create this lunar selfie. Captured in July 1969 following the Apollo 11 moon landing, Armstrong's original photograph recorded not only the magnificent desolation of an unfamiliar world, but Armstrong himself reflected in Aldrin's curved visor. In the unwrapped image, the spherical distortion of the reflection in Aldrin's helmet has been reversed. The transformed view features Armstrong himself from Aldrin's perspective. Since Armstrong took the original picture, today the image represents a fifty-four year old lunar selfie. Aldrin's visor reflection in the original image appears here on the left. Bright (but distorted) planet Earth hangs in the lunar sky above Armstrong's figure, toward the upper right. A foil-wrapped leg of the Eagle lander and Aldrin's long shadow stretching across the lunar surface are prominently visible. In 2024 NASA's Artemis II mission will return humans to the Moon.
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Has to be fake. The sky is too dark.
You mean too dark for the Arizona desert?
Take a photo of a concrete parking lot, and adjust the exposure to get a gray like the lunar surface shown. Be sure to include a view looking into a drain pipe. What can you see in the drain pipe? Now adjust the exposure to make the inside surface of the drain pipe appear as gray. Is there any detail in the concrete of the parking lot?
Investigative reporters publicly offered Neil Armstrong (in person) $5,000 to put his hand on the Bible and swear that he landed on the moon. He wouldn’t do it.
You can clearly see the cat curled up by the lander.
Our sky has color because of particulates and water droplets/clouds floating in it. You're not seeing the air (which is invisible), you're seeing light being reflected off the crap floating in it. The moon doesn't have enough atmosphere for either of those to happen there. Our sky would be just that black if we had such an anemic atmosphere.
Plus, sunshine on the moon is more intense than on earth because its sparse atmosphere provides none of the filtration earth's atmosphere does. And photographic film only can capture a limited range of light intensities. Which is why film can get under or over exposed.
With the camera's exposure set correctly for such brilliant sunlight, anything that wasn't somewhere close to that bright would be too dim for the film to capture. Which means even the Centaurus constellation, the stars closest to the earth apart from our sun, might be too dim to see on film. Maybe too dim to see with the naked eye, too, because your pupils will have constricted in the bright sunshine.
Nice try though, and don't forget to pick up your consolation prize on your way out.
I heard it was reporters from Al-Jazeera, a Quran and 72 doe-eyed virgins.
And he was on the verge of accepting the offer, too, ... at least until Mizzus Armstrong put the kibosh on that nonsense.
Unless I’m very much mistaken, that’s the only photo of Neil on the moon because he was the one assigned photographer duties. Buzz didn’t take and snaps.
I assume that the light blue object directly above the flag is the Earth.
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