Earth shines over the moon in amazing 1st photos from private Blue Ghost lander. 'We're all in that picture.

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Blue Ghost aced its lunar landing and is already sharing its first stunning views from the moon.

Earth shines over the moon in amazing 1st photos from private Blue Ghost lander. 'We're all in that picture. : Read more

 

[RokkoRokko]

The image "Blue Ghost aced its lunar landing and is already sharing its first stunning views from the moon. (Image credit: Firefly Aerospace)" doesn't look right to me. is it fake???

The first thing I saw was the horizon curvature was too prominent, suggesting the moon was only a few kilometers in diameter. Looked more like a shot taken from low orbit. Then I see there's a fish-eye effect on the lens from other images on the page. That explains that.

What I can't explain is that the lander shadow seems to reach way into the distance, like half a kilometer maybe] without the stretch effect shadows get . The shadow looks more like the sun is low on the horizon behind the lander projected onto the side of a large boulder. It looks as though the shado is projecting across 500 meters or so.

look at the angle of the craters as they recede into the distance - The shadow does not seem to match that at all.

Ok, more thought, assuming it is a real image, The lander shadow shows a small hill that it's sitting on - Did it land on a small hill ?

There is stretch in the shadow as I would expect, the rocket tube isn't that ling & the lander is box shaped mostly and the shadow shows a cone shape so stretch is definitely present.

The craters seem wrong, but maybe if the area of the background is only real small & the craters were only centimeters across - Maybe then that could work.

Perspective is a goofy thing.

Opinions from others on this?

 

[COLGeek]

Same comments as other thread. What has been seen is legit. Nothing odd at all.

 

[BAREFOOTNATIVE]

It looks legit, however, why does the earth look so small compared to how the moon looks from earth? Shouldn't the Earth look much larger?

 

[billslugg]

The size of the object in a photo depends on the focal length of the lens and the field of view. Until you get them factored in, object size is meaningless.

The Moon subtends 0.52° as viewed from Earth.
The Earth subtends 1.9° as seen from the Moon.
The diameters are different by a factor of 3.6.
The areas are different by a factor of 13.3.