Moon Landing Pics.

[joy division]

Just looking through some of the pics and was thinking why is the earth never visible in the background.

Now if i had gone to the moon i would a million percent have taken a pic with me and the earth in the background.

Or is there a pic i have not seen?

[midwich cuckoo]

View of Earth from the Moon

http://www.geography4kids.com/extras/dtop_space/moonearth_580.jpg

This view of the Earth rising over the Moon's horizon was taken during the Apollo 11 mission in 1969. The lunar terrain pictured is in the area of Smyth's Sea on the nearside. While the Lunar Module "Eagle" was on the surface to explore the Sea of Tranquility, the Command and Services Module "Columbia" remained in lunar orbit.

Image Credit: NASA

[rossus]

damn it looks dark outthere in the big cold universe

[joy division]

Is there any with the astranouts in view at the same time.

[auron]

I don't know if this counts:

http://www.inkycircus.com/photos/uncategorized/iss_harry_potter_1.jpg

[joy division]

I don't know if this counts:

http://www.inkycircus.com/photos/uncategorized/iss_harry_potter_1.jpg

:)

[chattanova]

I really doubt the landing-video.
The video just coulden't be real. What if something went wrong and the whole planet would see the american's fail?
Therefore they've made the landing video before in a film studio.
I really don't know if they're been there at all.
I guess most of you have seen the 'moon landing hoax',BBC documentary i think.
Which made ca. half of the american's to not believe they're been on the moon.
I couldn't find that but here's another one great documentary about this

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2265515730495966561&q=moon+landing+hoax

[limelady]

View of Earth from the Moon

http://www.geography4kids.com/extras/dtop_space/moonearth_580.jpg

This view of the Earth rising over the Moon's horizon was taken during the Apollo 11 mission in 1969. The lunar terrain pictured is in the area of Smyth's Sea on the nearside. While the Lunar Module "Eagle" was on the surface to explore the Sea of Tranquility, the Command and Services Module "Columbia" remained in lunar orbit.

Image Credit: NASA

Why does that pic look so dam fake?

[ashyr]

yeah it does doesnt it.

[chattanova]

Shouldn't there be some Stars in the picture?:confused:

[shottie]

Why are there no stars in those pictures???

[chattanova]

Why are there no stars in those pictures???

Just as in the moon landing video, no stars there either..
They just forgot them:)

[midwich cuckoo]

I do believe man has been to the moon but not the way they say they did and especially not in that tin foil moon lander!.

I'm not going to pretend to know about this but here's an explaination as to why you don't see stars from the moon, taken from here - http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html

No stars in pictures (http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html#stars)

The first bit of actual evidence brought up is the lack of stars in the pictures taken by the Apollo astronauts from the surface of the Moon. Without air, the sky is black, so where are the stars?

The stars are there! They're just too faint to be seen.

This is usually the first thing HBs talk about when discussing the Hoax. That amazes me, as it's the silliest assertion they make. However, it appeals to our common sense: when the sky is black here on Earth, we see stars.

Therefore we should see them from the Moon as well.

I'll say this here now, and return to it many times: the Moon is not the Earth. Conditions there are weird, and our common sense is likely to fail us.

The Moon's surface is airless. On Earth, our thick atmosphere scatters sunlight, spreading it out over the whole sky. That's why the sky is bright during the day.
Without sunlight, the air is dark at night, allowing us to see stars.

On the Moon, the lack of air means that the sky is dark. Even when the Sun is high off the horizon during full day, the sky near it will be black. If you were standing on the Moon, you would indeed see stars, even during the day.

So why aren't they in the Apollo pictures? Pretend for a moment you are an astronaut on the surface of the Moon. You want to take a picture of your fellow space traveler.

The Sun is low off the horizon, since all the lunar landings were done at local morning. How do you set your camera?

The lunar landscape is brightly lit by the Sun, of course, and your friend is wearing a white spacesuit also brilliantly lit by the Sun. To take a picture of a bright object with a bright background, you need to set the exposure time to be fast, and close down the aperture setting too; that's like the pupil in your eye constricting to let less light in when you walk outside on a sunny day.

So the picture you take is set for bright objects. Stars are faint objects! In the fast exposure, they simply do not have time to register on the film. It has nothing to do with the sky being black or the lack of air, it's just a matter of exposure time. If you were to go outside here on Earth on the darkest night imaginable and take a picture with the exact same camera settings the astronauts used, you won't see any stars. ;)