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• Bazoogle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The catch is “in sunlight” that was omitted from the tweet:

  Depending on their launch date, the crew of NASA’s Artemis II mission may become the first humans to see regions of the lunar far side, like Mare Orientale, in sunlight.

  svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14992/

  I guess their logic for the tweet is they technically couldn’t see it since it wasn’t lit? I do know they are capturing information in new details they didn’t have before because of the lighting. And I also imagine the dark side of the mook was essentially completely dark

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  • Karmanopoly@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They knew what they were tweeting

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• HumbleExaggeration@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  As far as I understand it, Apollo did pass over the far side of the moon, but there was no window oriented toward the moon surface. So they could not See it directly through a window. This seems to be different with Artemis, because they are facing the moon surface.

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  • Karmanopoly@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Wikipedia isn’t usually wrong about stuff like this. Apollo 8 specifically

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    • HumbleExaggeration@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Thank you for the correction. I think I have to improve my research.

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