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What gets me is that the videos warp the perspective of the Earth in a way where it doesn't appear large anymore; and I wonder if that would happen with astrona

• dylan604 2y ago
  The moon is a long way away. The furthest man has ever been from terra firma. The Earth is small at that distance compared to images from ISS or even a geosync satellite. The distance to the moon is about 30 Earths for perspective, over 400,000 kilometers away. Here's a very famous image from Apollo 8: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/82693/earthrise-revisited https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/82693/earthrise-rev... For a different perspective, check out the view of earth/moon from Mars: https://science.nasa.gov/resource/earth-and-moon-as-viewed-from-mars/ https://science.nasa.gov/resource/earth-and-moon-as-viewed-f...
  • nonethewiser 2y ago
    Earth in that image from the moon looks way bigger than the one he's talking about
    • dylan604 2y ago
      Different lenses would be the obvious answer. The lander's imagery looks like wide angle lenses while the Apollo image was taken by a human using a 250mm lens. If you watch the video in the link you'll see all of this info. It even shows a recreation of what it would look like to the astronauts which makes the earth look much smaller in the images
• bongodongobob 2y ago
  That just has to do with the lens size. The earth will be bigger using a 300mm zoom lens than a wide angle 17mm.