First Moon 'Earth-rise' video taken by the KAGUYA spacecraft

The onboard high definition camera of the moon explorer "KAGUYA," which is under initial functional verification, successfully acquired the world's first high definition images of an "Earth-rise" and "Earth-set." It was also the world's first HD images of the Earth from about 380,000 km away in space.
Image: (C) JAXA/NHK

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• moon

[MrJedDoggett]

These "high definition" images look like shit.

[superfunnyman123]

not hd, or i bet its youtube that messed it up

[joey1430]

distance!!! my god people the further away an object is the smaller it gets USE YOU'RE MINDS!

[krisdevalle]

@fanbutton Camera lens and zoom level can also change the relative size of the planet. Is this not true?

[fanbutton]

@Tornfrombelow it is an optical illusion. It had me going at frst until my eyes adapted to the shadows being cast. At first it seem as though the craters were inverted to look like disk shaped hills and mountains.

[fanbutton]

@krisdevalle camera resolution has nothing to do with the earth being shrunk to the size of a dime. The moon and the earth are in the same picture, therefore the earth the should look quite big regardless of resolution. The laws of physics do not change because of camera resolution.

[thebluegateway]

Bull crap!!

[arktikgraywolf]

epic fail

[ishouldplayzelda]

no, that's like saying "shouldn't the sun take up the whole sky?" i'm just yanking your chain but it probably does look bigger in reality (if you were actually on the moon looking at earth instead of at a tiny screen)

[Ritaliation]

your a false

[cuntyballs07]

Hmmm interesting question .

Maybe if the camera was actually ON the moon the earth would look bigger.I dunno.

[swebbo]

did they take any pics of the sunrise from the moon?