#4460220 - 02/06/19 08:37 PM
Chinese satellite captures image showing both Earth and the Moon's far side.
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China's Longjiang-2 satellite has captured an incredible image featuring both the far side of the Moon and Earth in the background. The data was received by the Netherlands' Dwingeloo Radio Telescope from an amateur radio transceiver built by a team at China's Harbin University of Technology. Great pic! Is this the view aliens will see as they close in on the earth?
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#4460230 - 02/06/19 09:26 PM
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fake ,how come the dark side is iluminated if it isnt facing us ? Joking, right?
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#4460238 - 02/06/19 10:20 PM
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I didn't understand the transmission cycle of the opening post, so after googling I found out The satellite was launched into space in June 2018, but is considered an "amateur" structure because it isn't affiliated with any space agency.
The camera which captured this stunning shot was built by students. The image was then beamed back to the Dwingeloo Radio Telescope in the northeastern Netherlands, and downloaded. I believe this is the first time that I've seen real pictures from the Earth-Moon Lagrange 2 point, and even though the photo is less interesting than what the Soviet Zond and US Ranger probes produced, i'm still amazed by what is essentially a smartphone camera with a bigger aperture, can produce. We live in great times
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#4460244 - 02/06/19 11:12 PM
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fake ,how come the dark side is iluminated if it isnt facing us ? Joking, right? I hope so.
There was only 16 squadrons of RAF fighters that used 100 octane during the BoB. The Fw190A could not fly with the outer cannon removed. There was no Fw190A-8s flying with the JGs in 1945.
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#4460253 - 02/07/19 01:06 AM
Re: Chinese satellite captures image showing both Earth and the Moon's far side.
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All I see is two flat disks.
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#4460264 - 02/07/19 03:32 AM
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To really, really blow the minds of people they should release a picture when the far side of the moon is completely illuminated by the Sun.
The tidal locking puts one face towards the Earth, but that doesn't mean the other side is "dark." On a new moon (for us) it's a full moon to anyone looking at it from the other side.
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#4460267 - 02/07/19 03:54 AM
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fake ,how come the dark side is iluminated if it isnt facing us ? Joking, right? they left the flash on
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#4460268 - 02/07/19 04:09 AM
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#4460285 - 02/07/19 11:06 AM
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To really, really blow the minds of people they should release a picture when the far side of the moon is completely illuminated by the Sun.
That is in fact what the OP picture is showing, the far side of the moon illuminated by the sun in the foreground and the earth in the distance.
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#4460363 - 02/07/19 06:51 PM
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#4460372 - 02/07/19 07:59 PM
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I think I can see Udo Kier in that moon pic.
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#4460376 - 02/07/19 08:28 PM
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My 'Waiting for Clod' thread: http://tinyurl.com/bqxc9eeAlways take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.Elie Wiesel. Romanian born Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, Holocaust survivor. 1928 - 2016. Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. C.S. Lewis, 1898 - 1963.
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#4460381 - 02/07/19 09:32 PM
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you mean of course the turtle of enormous girth, on whose shell rests the Earth
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#4460401 - 02/08/19 02:17 AM
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There is no far side of flat objects, only a backside. So where's the poop?
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#4460422 - 02/08/19 08:39 AM
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you mean of course the turtle of enormous girth, on whose shell rests the Earth Yes, which leads to the other question. What happened to the elephants, that stand on the turtle, that the world sits on?
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#4460426 - 02/08/19 09:43 AM
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The elephants have been poached by scientific agenda and the turtle broils in it's own gravy on the stove of media compliance.
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#4460567 - 02/09/19 06:52 AM
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To really, really blow the minds of people they should release a picture when the far side of the moon is completely illuminated by the Sun.
That is in fact what the OP picture is showing, the far side of the moon illuminated by the sun in the foreground and the earth in the distance. People are probably thrown off by the fact that it's not an image you "just shoot with your camera". Even with HDR the moon brightness would have probably made the earth almost invisible. I would guess it's a composite of several exposures, but I don't know, it's been decades since I geeked on camera stuff...
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