From the other place: https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/1dmibwd/this_is_my_most_advance_moon_photograph_ever_it/
Pics too good to miss. :)
Wait a goddamned fucking minute that’s not cheese…!
It’s cheese, gromit!
Linking to Reddit kind of defeats the purpose of using Lemmy.
At least they posted the source
Yes. However, we shouldn’t be sourcing content from Reddit at all.
I disagree. I welcome OC content like this.
It’s not OC. If it was, OP wouldn’t have had to link to Reddit to share it.
@fossilesque beautiful!
Can you see any moon landing site remains like the vehicles?
no but this is where the Apollo 11 site is
Not even Huble can see them. The moon is HUGE and the remains on the moon are tiny.
Now, is it really those colors is that just science stuff like all those dope pictures of nebulas?
Poor thing looks bruised. Who hit you?!
Quick! Someone tell Markiplier about this! (He hates the moon.)
With all the impacts the moon seems to take, is there any footage of a new crater being made? That would be super cool to see.
Here you go! First time seeing this footage myself!
https://youtu.be/000iTCoEE1s?si=mKO_1XCDVLYS-Yqk
I seem to recall a story about a large impact visible to Europe from Earth sometime around the renaissance as well, but I couldn’t find it.
Oh wow! Thanks for sharing!
Came in to see the comments and my goodness they are lovely this evening!
This is absolutely gorgeous. I love photos like this :)
This image does a good job at making me realize we have explored basically nothing on the moon. SO much more to explore, yet we act like there’s no point trying to send more astronauts to the moon for decades. Please, increase NASA budget more.
Irrespective of the crater size, depth looks consistent. Does anyone know why that is?
The conspiracy about the moon is that under a thin layer of dust… it’s really all metal. /shrug
Multiple reasons:
Higher speed impacts penetrate deep, but also cause the rock to melt. This fills in deeper craters, limiting the max depth a crater can be. There are still very deep huge craters, but these look more like big depressions than craters, because of how big they are. They are also themselves covered with craters usually, making their size and shape harder to see.
Because the diameter of the moon is 3474km, a difference of several kilometers would only amount to a fraction of a percent. So even though one crater is for example 10km deeper than another, relative to the size of the moon this is practically nothing. When viewing pics like these where the whole moon is visible, this matters.
The moon is a very uniform gray color and lacks the indicators our brain use to gauge depth. This makes it very hard to guess how deep the different craters are. You can see some craters have more shadows where others don’t, but they are also different shapes and sizes and the lighting is different so it’s hard to see.
There is also probably some part of the speeds of incoming stuff being within a certain range and the moonrocks being relatively uniform in materials, so the range of craters than can exists is probably limited. But I’m not certain how big of an factor this is and what the range is.
I’m hoping there are missions to go in close, get a better look.
It’s… beautiful.
It’s crazy to me that you can get this much detail even through our atmosphere.
Wow. The level of writing failure in the headline is ALSO astronomical.
he missed two letters.
ASTRONOMICAL!!!
They take pictures of other balls floating around they don’t teach English give em a break
this is the COOLEST thing ever