Bonus eclipse photo! More pics are being uploaded here: https://images.nasa.gov/

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[–] [S] 30 points 7 months ago (1 child)

update they posted earthrise too

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  • [–] 18 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    That eclipse photo is absolutely stupendous, worthy of its own post! Are those brighter trio of stars planets?

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    [–] 13 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    The eclipse photo might be my favorite from the mission so far. That's an incredible shot.

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    I see they've turned off the GPS coordinates in the EXIF data, to stop us from knowing that these images were created in a VFX studio in Hollywood.

    Can't pull the wool over my eyes, man!

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Just out of interest but what is the GPS coordinates of Luna orbit?

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I know nothing about this so it is purely speculation, but my first thought would be that it simply wouldn’t work.

    But from a purely mathematical standpoint, the gps receiver would probably be able to see the satellites just fine, so assuming that worked, it could triangulate its position as the point on earth closest to them (the middle of the globe from their perspective), and then just give them an extremely high altitude.

    That said, I know consumer technology (I believe they are using an iPhone) automatically turns off gps if it detects you are flying at a high enough speed, to prevent you from using it to guide a missile.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    Can we go back to worshipping celestial bodies? Please uwu

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  • Off topic, but how cool would it be if NASA started its own Pixelfed server for official pictures like this?

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago* (1 child)
  • Nice. Prime seat for nuclear war :3

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Tell me I'm the only one seeing a worm on the moon surface 😳

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    And if you look really close on the right hand side, you can just make out the disturbed ground surrounding the entrance to the underground Chinese base.

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  • [–] -1 points 7 months ago

    hope we will still alive to be able to see their awesome shots of earth with all the mushroom plumes from the nuclear bombs going off

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