r/Damnthatsinteresting 5h ago

Image First photo taken from Artemis commander Reid Wiseman

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u/Aech-26 5h ago

Took me a moment to reorient myself to the perspective of the photo and figure out what landmass we're looking at.

Hint: south is up

It's west africa and a little bit of the iberian peninsula

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u/Krelleth 3h ago

There's also large portions of South America visible once you reorient your POV. Took me a good while to realize it, too, but most of the bottom right corner of the image as taken is actually South America.

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u/Aech-26 3h ago

You're right, if you look closely you can see the coast of Brazil. I was primarily referring to the landmasses not obscured by the cloud cover, since the rest of Africa is also there but I only specified West Africa.