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Based on the lighting from the rest of the image, shouldn't the flag shadow be longer and falling the other direction??
by squarecat 14y ago
Based on the lighting from the rest of the image, shouldn't the flag shadow be longer and falling the other direction??
- jgrahamc 14y agoLooking at the illumination of the craters it looks like the Sun is on the right hand side of the picture in the BBC article (craters are dark on the right hand side, light on the left hand side). The shadow of the flag appears on the left hand side of the flag itself so it looks correct to me.
- squarecat 14y agoI wasn't seeing craters but mounds which, of course, is improbable for lunar geology. (Strangely, even after this revelation, my mind still processes the lighting as falling on objects the rise above the surface...)