iPhone Video Shows 'Earthset' From Space 44
NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman posted an out-of-this-world iPhone video on Sunday, showing Earth disappear behind the Moon at 8x zoom. "I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view," said Wiseman, noting that this video is "uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom" and "quite comparable to the view of the human eye." The New York Times says the video marks the first time an "Earthset" has been captured on video.
"We've seen our fair share of remarkable images and videos from NASA's Artemis II mission around the Moon. Some of those were even captured on iPhone," notes 9to5Mac. "But Reid Wiseman, astronaut and commander for the Artemis II mission, just posted a new video that might take the crown for the most impressive yet."
"We've seen our fair share of remarkable images and videos from NASA's Artemis II mission around the Moon. Some of those were even captured on iPhone," notes 9to5Mac. "But Reid Wiseman, astronaut and commander for the Artemis II mission, just posted a new video that might take the crown for the most impressive yet."
Free iPhones rather than Corvettes? (Score:5, Funny)
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Well, in a few years the nominal value of an iphone may well be the same as the one of a Corvette back then.
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Sadly, they're just getting a free lifetime supply of those Smuckers Uncrustables.
But did anyone verify the GPS coordinates of the videos and photos to make sure it wasn't some soundstage in Hollywood? Anyone make sure the GPS says it was taken where they said it was taken? /s
(Yes, I know GPS doesn't work that way, but now every photos and video is GPS tagged so if it was a soundstage in Hollywood it would work...)
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The moon is not that reflective: on average it only reflects 12% of the sunlight that falls onto it. Still, that's 12% of 1360 W/m2, which means the surface still is four orders of magnitude brighter than the very dim stars.
IDK if the crew took photos of the stars. Just for fun, try taking photos of the stars tonight, under these circumstances:
1. you have to use a large DSLR.
2. you can't put it on a tripod, the only support you are allowed to use is the windows in your house.
Try keeping the camera still for
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in what way do you think I did that?
Re: What an obvious fake! (Score:1)
By how much does the opposition effect increase the moon's albedo?
"The opposition effect (or opposition surge) increases the Moon's effective brightness by approximately 40% as the phase angle moves from
to
Wikipedia
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. Some research suggests this surge can increase visible light return by up to 50% within the final few degrees of opposition "
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So the albedo goes from 12% to 16-18%. Is that significant, in view of the four orders of magnitude brightness difference we already have?
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At that point in their trajectory, Orion would have been in the Moon's shadow with respect to the Sun, so the Moon's surface was quite dark.
Re: What an obvious fake! (Score:2)
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Yes all video is fake. I've long been rallying against the movie industry. They tell us things "move" but all I see is discrete steps. You can expose this fakery by pausing and unpausing very quickly and taking a screenshot each time. You can even print them out and frame them then hang them on the wall. Heck that's what we could call these steps, we could call them frames.
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(Good one!)
How far we have fallen (Score:1, Flamebait)
The last Moon-missions used Hasselblad cameras with REAL objectives and now this.
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Wait, no, Apollo used the 16mm Maurer "Data Acquisition Camera" with patented PotatoVision(TM)
I've watched all of the Apollo 11 footage, it's barely better than the Super 8 film my parent shot back in the 70s.
Re:How far we have fallen (Score:5, Informative)
The last Moon-missions used Hasselblad cameras with REAL objectives and now this.
Please stop complaining. Most of the awesome photography that happened on this mission was performed with Nikon D5s and Nikon glass. The D5 has been in use on the ISS [wikipedia.org] for a long while, the astronaut corps is familiar with it, it's proven its reliability in space environments, and has exceptional low-light capabilities.* Plus, Nikon works with NASA [youtube.com] to provide custom firmware and related services.
And before you move the goal posts and start whining "but that camera is so old!" - they also brought a more modern Z9 with them. A modified Z9 will be what is used on the lunar surface.
More info: [1 [youtube.com]], [2 [youtu.be]], [3 [space.com]]
* The recent Hello World image [nasa.gov] that was in every media channel on Earth was shot at ISO 51200 [petapixel.com], because it's actually capturing the night side of Earth. That is: Weissman took that picture in the dark.
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Yes, because more photos and videos of space are bad.
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There was nothing "real" about the last moon missions. The last moon missions recorded film on a colour cast fujifilm intended for creative qualities which accentuated contrast and blue saturation . By comparison the digital sensor on the iphone is far more real.
Also what's a "real objective"? I assume you mean lenses. Last I checked the iPhone had a lens on it too and apparently its so real you can even touch it.
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"There was nothing "real" about the last moon missions."
Sure, it was, last time Stanley Kubrick was the director.:-)
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You think the moon landing was fake? Dude, the MOON is fake. It's an optical dilution created by the Stonecutters.
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"Last I checked the iPhone had a lens on it too and apparently its so real you can even touch it."
Touch? Hasselblad lenses broke your toes if you dropped them.:-)
And you COULD drop them.
Compare with Spacex's Starship (Score:3, Informative)
After a couple of weeks, NASA's Artemis finds an Iphone video one of the crew took.
Re: Compare with Spacex's Starship (Score:2)
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"The car, mounted on the rocket's second stage, was launched on an escape trajectory and entered an elliptical heliocentric orbit crossing the orbit of Mars.[6] The orbit reaches a maximum distance from the Sun at aphelion of 1.66 astronomical units (au).[4] Video of the Roadster during the launch was transmitted back to the mission control center and live-streamed."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk%27s_Tesla_Roadster
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And far, far beyond LEO.
Re:Compare with Spacex's Starship (Score:5, Informative)
After a couple of weeks, NASA's Artemis finds an Iphone video one of the crew took.
Have you been living under a rock? NASA live-streamed practically the entire mission on YouTube and other channels [artemis2.live]. Pictures taken by the astronauts were posted to NASA's website [nasa.gov] on a daily basis, and splashed across every newspaper and media channel on the planet!
Bear in mind that during the Apollo mission, we had to wait for the astronauts to return and have film developed before anyone could see images.
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But then they text the video and it becomes 240p resolution.
iPhone iPhone iPhone (Score:5, Funny)
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Make it make sense (Score:1)
Reid Wiseman:
"I could barely see the Moon...
O.o
The way the Moon suddenly snaps into focus in the video reminded me of the wizardry/fakery employed by Samsung's controversial Scene Optimiser [samsung.com], as nicely exposed here [reddit.com]
Huawei (and Xiaomi) definitely don't do similar though, no siree! That pretty photo that I took with my Huawei t'other week is totes
Business as usual (Score:1)
I feel sorry for you, Artemis crew...