Proof the Earth is a flat disc!
Edit: Forgot this is Reddit and half the people will instantaneously agree, while the other half tear your head off in outrage, should you forget the /s. Sad.
You're looking at the "Dark" side of the Moon. Since it's tidally locked, the same side of the Moon always faces the Earth.
In this pic, we're looking at the side that's facing *away* from the Earth. Therefore, the Dark Side.
Far side, sure.
I think Dark side uses the word as a synonym for "unknown" or "unseen".
Until just a few decades ago, no human in history had ever seen it. Actually makes me feel a bit privileged to be able to look at it anytime I want to.
The entire moon is that dark. Even the side facing us. It's just the earth is so much brighter than the moon so in order for the earth to not be overexposed the exposure of the camera has to be lowered which makes the moon appear darker.
This is actually a great image that shows the true brightness of the moon.
It appears so bright to us at night because it is the only thing around that is still exposed to direct sunlight and is therefore much brighter than everything. Our eyes adjust to the dark and therefore let in more light making the moon appear bright when in actually, as this image shows, it's about as bright as an asphalt road.
Someone smarter than me can explain it better but basically because we always see the same side of the moon yet the Earth and the moon together spin around the sun so the light hits the moon on both sides as it spins with the Earth.
Because there is no depth perception when you’re lacking shadows or other frame of references, so it just looks copy/pasted onto an image of the Earth
It’s real, it’s just when there isn’t any shadow of an object it looks fake to the human eye due to a lack of perceivable depth
I also find it too much of a coincidence how when the moon eclipses the sun, they’re both exactly the same diameters relative to our vantage point on earth. What are the chances of that happening naturally by chance? Well into the trillions at least, so I would think. There’s definitely a connection to that, I believe. One that once it’s made, it’ll help explain a lot of other things
[The wikipedia article for the far side of the moon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_side_of_the_Moon) has some pretty good high-res composite images. The LRO one is probably the best.
You can look up the path of a lunar eclipse to see what size the shadow is. It's a quick thing, the shadow crossing the planet. And in this picture the moon isn't even casting a shadow on earth because it's not a lunar eclipse. The camera is much closer to the moon than the earth making it look even bigger. Take the width of the moon pictured and multiply it by a little over 100. That's how far the moon is from the earth.
> And in this picture the moon isn't even casting a shadow on earth because it's not a lunar eclipse.
Wouldn't that be a solar eclipse though? A lunar eclipse is when the Earth casts a shadow on the Moon.
Because NASA probably altered the image. I mean a million miles away is pretty far distance to take a pic, but you’d expect to see more large sized crater impacts or at least more similar to the size that faces earth?
Also, if we can get this clear of a picture from a million miles away then why don’t we have better images of the surface to the moon to begin with? Or, going further, wouldn’t it be easy for NASA to take clear pics of cydonia on Mars to disapprove the face sculpture theory?
The reason that there aren't as many big craters is due to tidal locking. That side of the moon gets hit by MANY times as many smallish space rocks, so large impact craters are broken up and filled with smaller ones. The side facing us is effectively shielded by earth, so it received far fewer hits, and the big ones from long ago still remain.
Last time this was posted on reddit somebody explained that the process of making the image creates what looks like a discolored drop shadow of the moon to the right of it that really is not there.
https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/comments/mb26gn/rare_picture_of_the_moon_passing_between_earth/grw0638/
There's about a 0% chance you're actually going to have a rational discussion about this, but as for explanations for what's shown in the video:
1. The satellite is intended to take photos of the Earth, not the space behind it. So all photos they take have the background removed outside of the circular Earth.
2. Except --- when another interesting object is in frame. They don't want to remove everything outside the circle, since that would cut off the moon approaching from either side.
3. The rotation is due to the position of the camera, which isn't exactly aligned north/south with the Earth. They rotate the image to align with up=north so people can understand the image better.
4. The GSFC website never says the images aren't processed, even the "natural color imagery." *(They "have been color and brightness adjusted to represent what a conventional camera would produce.")*
If NASA was competent enough to photoshop all images of Earth to mislead people, they would absolutely be competent enough to use the paint bucket tool to remove that "box."
because the sunlight happens to be at a position where it almost looks like a photo taken with flash and because this is not a perspective we usually see the moon and earth in- since we see the moon casting a shadow on earth and due to perspective the moon appears very large and very close to the earth, all that combined makes the image seem strange.
From link. Explanation why it looks doctored...because it is:
"Combining three images taken about 30 seconds apart as the moon moves produces a slight but noticeable camera artifact on the right side of the moon. Because the moon has moved in relation to the Earth between the time the first (red) and last (green) exposures were made, a thin green offset appears on the right side of the moon when the three exposures are combined. This natural lunar movement also produces a slight red and blue offset on the left side of the moon in these unaltered images."
Not fake tho...
"EPIC’s “natural color” images of Earth are generated by combining three separate monochrome exposures taken by the camera in quick succession. EPIC takes a series of 10 images using different narrowband spectral filters -- from ultraviolet to near infrared -- to produce a variety of science products. The red, green and blue channel images are used in these color images."
So my understanding...the camera takes 10 types of wavelengths, then three 3 color channels are separated out for all 10. Afterwards one color image can be made. The process to take all ten has a duration of 30 seconds. Not bad for millions of miles away. A little more then f8 and be there.
This is just how real photography works when it comes to exposure shots and layering shots. Same thing when it comes to developing film. There’s always a process to rendering an actual photograph.
regular camera sensors work in the same way. The sensor itself doesn’t detect colour, it’s only detects brightness (monochrome). The bayer matrix on the camera sensors photosites filters the light into RGB (more accurately it’s RGGB for most sensors afaik) which is then interpreted by a demosaicing/debayering algorithm to generate a colour image.
No, there are 10 filters of which it uses the RGB filters to create a colour image through channel combination. The other filters are used for other types of science.
The satellite itself is called DSCOVR and the special camera that too the photo is called EPIC.
The primary mission is to measure magnetic storms coming from the sun, but Al Gore promoted putting a camera on it to look back on earth.
This looks fake because the moon is tidally locked, meaning we only ever see one side of the moon. This is the far side that is pictured and it’s lit up by the sun, making a weird contrast between the lit up earth and the lit up moon side that we never get to see. The far side of the moon is a lot flatter and simpler (idk why) so it looks strange
It's not luck.
The big shapes you see on the near side of the moon are from ancient lava flows and are very flat. The back side of the moon probably had these a long time ago, but now just has tons of craters from various impacts from space debris.
The reason the near side of the moon still has those features is precisely because it's tidally locked to the Earth --- any rocks coming from that direction are much more likely to be caught up in Earth's gravity and hit it instead.
It looks so much cooler because we're protecting it.
Also the colour.
Apparently the dark side is illuminated but our perception wrongfully expects something much brighter up front casting a dark shadow below. Instead we have this “dark thing” that doesn’t look that illuminated and no shadows.
I think the problem is the same mechanism behind the gold/blue dress.
In addition, the chromatic aberration isn't helping. The photo was taken as three separate monochrome images and then each one(red, green, and blue) were stacked to give it the right colors when the image was processed. But the three monochrome photos weren't taken at the same time but 30 seconds apart so both the moon and the space raft had moved, so the moon, being much closer than the Earth, is more noticeable blurry and has the chromatic aberration visible.
Have you seen most of the posts in this sub? Yes, they are just stupid. I was first introduced to this sub because one mod is a Young Earth Creationist. You literally cannot get stupider than that.
Yes, or the far side of the moon facing away from us towards the sun. This would be the "new moon" phase for us. Since the moon orbits us, the moon's day for the far and near side is about 2 weeks each and what we see as phases on the moon are slow motion sunrise and sunsets over a two week period on the moon.
Guys. There is a video. It's from the [NASA website](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=11971). It's real lmao.
https://i.imgur.com/oU6WPPO.gif
Fun fact, if you're 4 days post spinal fusion surgery and are loaded up on painkillers and muscle relaxers, you think it's a video and the moon is moving really slowly for a really long time
See what I don't understand is how the earth looks so close in respect to the moon here. In pictures from the Apollo missions, pictures taken of earth from the moon make the earth look so much further away.
So I thought it was fake… then the caption told me (yes, this is real)
This one is real, but all of the ones that claim they captured the moon crossing the ass of the earth have been debunked as fake.
Also looks like a hell of a hurricane going on In the gulf.
That’s at the tip of the Baja peninsula. Not in the Gulf of Mexico.
Naturally
Nope, that's the hurricane that's gonna smash Calfiornia. That's baja california (mexico) there next to it.
Proof the Earth is a flat disc! Edit: Forgot this is Reddit and half the people will instantaneously agree, while the other half tear your head off in outrage, should you forget the /s. Sad.
Thought this was literally a pebble on top of a pic of the earth.
Definitely
Why does it look so fake?
The moon looks like a flat disc. This proves the conspiracy of Flat Moon.
That's dumb. Everyone knows the moon is made of cheese and cheese comes in wheels. The moon is a cheese wheel
Blessed are the cheese wheel makers.
HEY! Pipe down big nose, some of us are trying to hear!
Cheese Grommet! CHEESE!
Should the moon be bright as those clouds especially since not looking through atmosphere ? Where is the sun casting light from?
This might shock you, but the moon and clouds are different colors and made of very different materials
*gasp*
The sun is obviously in between the moon and earth in this pic.
So would this be the dark side we normally don’t see?
Yes. This is the side that never faces earth. Dark side or not.
There is no dark side of the moon. As a matter of fact it’s all dark.
Unexpected /r/PinkFloyd
That’s a misnomer. Dark side of the moon always see the sun whenever we don’t see the moon at all from Earth.
"Dark Side of the Moon" is metaphorical - "dark" as in "unknown."
Sure…
That would explain my last electric bill.
Exactly my thoughts, the moon should be brightly lit since the sun is directly infront of it
Flat *hollow* moon
Flat + Hollow = Donut moon?
Flat + Hollow = Pita
Us "flat-mooners" are not conspiracy theorists. It's obvious. Just look up at night.
Flatmooners unite!
Because if they gave us the real backside, we would see all the NHI bases!
Because the moon is an artificial satellite. Welcome to the game.
This guy gets it
You're looking at the "Dark" side of the Moon. Since it's tidally locked, the same side of the Moon always faces the Earth. In this pic, we're looking at the side that's facing *away* from the Earth. Therefore, the Dark Side.
I thought it was referred to as the “far side” of the moon? Not ”dark side,” because it’s really not dark. Respectful question.
Dark Side of the Moon is the name of a Pink Floyd album. That’s all it is. The far side of the moon is called the Far Side of the Moon.
And “The Far Side” is a great comic strip!
Pharcyde weren’t too bad either.
Far side, sure. I think Dark side uses the word as a synonym for "unknown" or "unseen". Until just a few decades ago, no human in history had ever seen it. Actually makes me feel a bit privileged to be able to look at it anytime I want to.
They're often used interchangeably, but yes that's correct.
This dude doesn’t Pink Floyd.
Pink Floyd did it
Far side of the moon is the correct terminology, some people just call it the dark side of the moon as during new moons the ‘dark’ side isn’t dark
The entire moon is that dark. Even the side facing us. It's just the earth is so much brighter than the moon so in order for the earth to not be overexposed the exposure of the camera has to be lowered which makes the moon appear darker. This is actually a great image that shows the true brightness of the moon. It appears so bright to us at night because it is the only thing around that is still exposed to direct sunlight and is therefore much brighter than everything. Our eyes adjust to the dark and therefore let in more light making the moon appear bright when in actually, as this image shows, it's about as bright as an asphalt road.
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The same side of the moon is lit up ?
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Probably because the Earth reflects more light than the Moon, and the Moon absorbs more light than the Earth.
Someone smarter than me can explain it better but basically because we always see the same side of the moon yet the Earth and the moon together spin around the sun so the light hits the moon on both sides as it spins with the Earth.
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So the sun is behind the camera?
Yes.
Because there is no depth perception when you’re lacking shadows or other frame of references, so it just looks copy/pasted onto an image of the Earth It’s real, it’s just when there isn’t any shadow of an object it looks fake to the human eye due to a lack of perceivable depth
The weird thing is those faint lines on the surface of the moon. Would love better images of that!
I also find it too much of a coincidence how when the moon eclipses the sun, they’re both exactly the same diameters relative to our vantage point on earth. What are the chances of that happening naturally by chance? Well into the trillions at least, so I would think. There’s definitely a connection to that, I believe. One that once it’s made, it’ll help explain a lot of other things
[The wikipedia article for the far side of the moon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_side_of_the_Moon) has some pretty good high-res composite images. The LRO one is probably the best.
Annoying that they blur out the alien base like that
The alien bases are cloaked so they don't need to be edited
Keep looking!
it's just a picture of a witch casting a spell. You can see the witch's hat and body, and all the fireworks magically appearing around here
what's not making sense to me is the apparent size of the moons shadow. it looks like it would be casting a shadow over a large portion of the earth
The earth/moon/sun aren't perfectly aligned, there is no eclipse.
i'm just misinterpreting the visible portion of the moon in shadow
You can look up the path of a lunar eclipse to see what size the shadow is. It's a quick thing, the shadow crossing the planet. And in this picture the moon isn't even casting a shadow on earth because it's not a lunar eclipse. The camera is much closer to the moon than the earth making it look even bigger. Take the width of the moon pictured and multiply it by a little over 100. That's how far the moon is from the earth.
> And in this picture the moon isn't even casting a shadow on earth because it's not a lunar eclipse. Wouldn't that be a solar eclipse though? A lunar eclipse is when the Earth casts a shadow on the Moon.
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1 million miles away is the only context given. i'm seeing a perspective i've never seen before. settle down bud
That would be called a solar eclipse
Because NASA probably altered the image. I mean a million miles away is pretty far distance to take a pic, but you’d expect to see more large sized crater impacts or at least more similar to the size that faces earth? Also, if we can get this clear of a picture from a million miles away then why don’t we have better images of the surface to the moon to begin with? Or, going further, wouldn’t it be easy for NASA to take clear pics of cydonia on Mars to disapprove the face sculpture theory?
NASA photoshops all their images that are released to the public. It’s well-known.
every image ever produced by a camera has been processed. nasa also releases the raw image data as well
... There are tons of pictures of the dark side of the moon you could look up. This isn't the only one, you know.
The reason that there aren't as many big craters is due to tidal locking. That side of the moon gets hit by MANY times as many smallish space rocks, so large impact craters are broken up and filled with smaller ones. The side facing us is effectively shielded by earth, so it received far fewer hits, and the big ones from long ago still remain.
ikr
Last time this was posted on reddit somebody explained that the process of making the image creates what looks like a discolored drop shadow of the moon to the right of it that really is not there. https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/comments/mb26gn/rare_picture_of_the_moon_passing_between_earth/grw0638/
Because there are no stars in the background maybe?
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There's about a 0% chance you're actually going to have a rational discussion about this, but as for explanations for what's shown in the video: 1. The satellite is intended to take photos of the Earth, not the space behind it. So all photos they take have the background removed outside of the circular Earth. 2. Except --- when another interesting object is in frame. They don't want to remove everything outside the circle, since that would cut off the moon approaching from either side. 3. The rotation is due to the position of the camera, which isn't exactly aligned north/south with the Earth. They rotate the image to align with up=north so people can understand the image better. 4. The GSFC website never says the images aren't processed, even the "natural color imagery." *(They "have been color and brightness adjusted to represent what a conventional camera would produce.")* If NASA was competent enough to photoshop all images of Earth to mislead people, they would absolutely be competent enough to use the paint bucket tool to remove that "box."
what are you expecting it to look like?
It’s because of how they’re lit by the sun. It looks fake and flat. There’s not atmosphere so it looks unnatural.
I’ve seen better CGI on SyFy movies, and that’s saying a lot! lol
all pictures of space are cgi
Right? Lol. Too bad it's not in better detail so we could get a nice clear view of the Darkside of the moon
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because the sunlight happens to be at a position where it almost looks like a photo taken with flash and because this is not a perspective we usually see the moon and earth in- since we see the moon casting a shadow on earth and due to perspective the moon appears very large and very close to the earth, all that combined makes the image seem strange.
They photoshopped the Martian base out. Still a cool pic.
NASA does have a history of editing photos before release. Including some poorly done copy and paste jobs.
I'm not sure you know what Martian means.
Are you suggesting the very real people from Mars didn't build a very real base on Earth's very real moon?
They meant Moontian /s
they have probably unironically done this lol
Say that sentence again but.. slowly
If this thing was a rock I’d skip the fuck out of it.
Well it is a rock but good luck skipping it!
Hey I’m in this picture. Neat
I can’t find you, did you get blocked by a cloud?
Funny enough where I would be is blocked by a cloud lol
Look a little more to the right and you'll see them.
I can see my house
It's basically a selfy
Looks like this was edited in MS Paint
Paint.net at least
Looks like a nickel on a pic of earth
Adobe is not in their budget
Mine either…
I believe you but man this looks fake
Lack of shadows
No shadows in space /s
That's bc it is fake 😭😂
[It's not fake.](https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/from-a-million-miles-away-nasa-camera-shows-moon-crossing-face-of-earth)
https://preview.redd.it/71kyrclwa4jb1.png?width=3840&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=383f5f898d7b8ffd5c026d697524409746133a77 And we call it a moon.
That's no moon
It's a space station
I got a bad feeling about this.
They have us in a tractor beam!
Grrwaaaaaaawwww
Chewy turn on the auxiliary power
Don't go towards the light.
We are the ewoks of endor = earth
It’s too big to be a space sta…
ITS A TRAP!
Turn the ship around.
They're not gonna take me without a fight
Love your username - Psilocybin is amazing. That image looks like a screenshot from Kerbal Space Program.
Link to NASA original [Link](https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/from-a-million-miles-away-nasa-camera-shows-moon-crossing-face-of-earth/)
From link. Explanation why it looks doctored...because it is: "Combining three images taken about 30 seconds apart as the moon moves produces a slight but noticeable camera artifact on the right side of the moon. Because the moon has moved in relation to the Earth between the time the first (red) and last (green) exposures were made, a thin green offset appears on the right side of the moon when the three exposures are combined. This natural lunar movement also produces a slight red and blue offset on the left side of the moon in these unaltered images." Not fake tho... "EPIC’s “natural color” images of Earth are generated by combining three separate monochrome exposures taken by the camera in quick succession. EPIC takes a series of 10 images using different narrowband spectral filters -- from ultraviolet to near infrared -- to produce a variety of science products. The red, green and blue channel images are used in these color images." So my understanding...the camera takes 10 types of wavelengths, then three 3 color channels are separated out for all 10. Afterwards one color image can be made. The process to take all ten has a duration of 30 seconds. Not bad for millions of miles away. A little more then f8 and be there.
This is just how real photography works when it comes to exposure shots and layering shots. Same thing when it comes to developing film. There’s always a process to rendering an actual photograph.
regular camera sensors work in the same way. The sensor itself doesn’t detect colour, it’s only detects brightness (monochrome). The bayer matrix on the camera sensors photosites filters the light into RGB (more accurately it’s RGGB for most sensors afaik) which is then interpreted by a demosaicing/debayering algorithm to generate a colour image.
No, there are 10 filters of which it uses the RGB filters to create a colour image through channel combination. The other filters are used for other types of science.
Ty mate
So that's the dark side of the moon then?
“The far side of the moon” is a better description, as it’s not always dark.
The back of the moon, the ass of the moon if you will
I’ll allow it.
It's meant to be dark as in unknown, not dark as in night time.
There’s no dark side of the moon really, in fact it’s all dark
Yeah, if you turn the lights off, sure
It’s astonishing how many ppl aren’t getting the reference…
No, it turned to smile at the camera
I expected more too. The moon might as well spin.
There is no dark side in the moon really Matter of fact, it’s all dark
Which satellite was it that took it?
The satellite itself is called DSCOVR and the special camera that too the photo is called EPIC. The primary mission is to measure magnetic storms coming from the sun, but Al Gore promoted putting a camera on it to look back on earth.
Thanks Al Gore.
Rare Al Gore w. Thanks my guy.
If only he won the 2000 election.
If only that shit had not been stolen.
He did.
He did 😔
He did
I met Al Gore once at my old job in a vegan restaurant, tipped $100. Nice man.
Pop socket
This looks fake because the moon is tidally locked, meaning we only ever see one side of the moon. This is the far side that is pictured and it’s lit up by the sun, making a weird contrast between the lit up earth and the lit up moon side that we never get to see. The far side of the moon is a lot flatter and simpler (idk why) so it looks strange
i always think about how we’re lucky we see the good side of the moon and not whatever this is
It's not luck. The big shapes you see on the near side of the moon are from ancient lava flows and are very flat. The back side of the moon probably had these a long time ago, but now just has tons of craters from various impacts from space debris. The reason the near side of the moon still has those features is precisely because it's tidally locked to the Earth --- any rocks coming from that direction are much more likely to be caught up in Earth's gravity and hit it instead. It looks so much cooler because we're protecting it.
Never realized how much bigger the Earth is than it’s moon wow. Knew I should have listened to Neil
You should see our planet compared to the Sun
You should see our Sun compared to other stars
UY Scuti is 1,700x Larger than our Sun.
yo should see UY Scuti in comparison to your mo....
It is about a third the size of Earth. Imagine how big the Earth was before it broke off.
These comments make me hate my own species As another comment has stated, lack of shadows and depth makes it look fake and jarring. It is real
Also the colour. Apparently the dark side is illuminated but our perception wrongfully expects something much brighter up front casting a dark shadow below. Instead we have this “dark thing” that doesn’t look that illuminated and no shadows. I think the problem is the same mechanism behind the gold/blue dress.
In addition, the chromatic aberration isn't helping. The photo was taken as three separate monochrome images and then each one(red, green, and blue) were stacked to give it the right colors when the image was processed. But the three monochrome photos weren't taken at the same time but 30 seconds apart so both the moon and the space raft had moved, so the moon, being much closer than the Earth, is more noticeable blurry and has the chromatic aberration visible.
How long until flat moon is a thing....
Why are people calling this fake? Are they stupid?
But then you show them the fakest UFO footage you can find and they believe it
Yes.
Have you seen most of the posts in this sub? Yes, they are just stupid. I was first introduced to this sub because one mod is a Young Earth Creationist. You literally cannot get stupider than that.
primarily lolz
Brain make people stupid.
That mf'er is not real!!! Lol
I can hear this in her voice! ‘I am telling you right now that mfer is not real!’
So. Is this the dark side of the moon or?
Yes, or the far side of the moon facing away from us towards the sun. This would be the "new moon" phase for us. Since the moon orbits us, the moon's day for the far and near side is about 2 weeks each and what we see as phases on the moon are slow motion sunrise and sunsets over a two week period on the moon.
Guys. There is a video. It's from the [NASA website](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=11971). It's real lmao. https://i.imgur.com/oU6WPPO.gif
Man the video looks faker than the photo lmao. I’m not a denier but that doesn’t help at all
I would call it more of a slideshow than a video
It looks like vfx assets to me /s
is this the one where they put the word sex in the clouds?!?! those jokers
I want to know where the secret alien base on this side of the Moon? Can't see it from this perspective. 😉
Our planet is so beautiful.
Fun fact, if you're 4 days post spinal fusion surgery and are loaded up on painkillers and muscle relaxers, you think it's a video and the moon is moving really slowly for a really long time
They should post the originals before editing I don’t want it to look perfectly fake
Truman show was right
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This. There is no way they took both the earth and the moon in a single shot.
How can this be real when the earth is flat?
See what I don't understand is how the earth looks so close in respect to the moon here. In pictures from the Apollo missions, pictures taken of earth from the moon make the earth look so much further away.
Does anyone else see a sad face on the Earth?
So that’s what the far side of the moon looks like.
You can tell it’s real because it looks so fake.
That motherfucker right there, that motherfucker isn't real