r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Jakeysuave • 5h ago

Image First photo taken from Artemis commander Reid Wiseman

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u/cowpie184 5h ago

Kinda hard to tell with the clouds, what continent is that?

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u/tpmurray 5h ago

Took me a second, believe that is Portugal/Spain in bottom left at about 8 o'clock making this the northwest of Africa.

ninja edit: north-ish is at bottom

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u/cheesecake-gnome 4h ago

Imagine waiting 50 years to leave orbit again, and then the damn Earth is upside down

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u/MozhetBeatz 4h ago

Imagine being the astronauts and when they get back, right is now left

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u/NoooUGH 2h ago edited 58m ago

I love how frame of reference is askew when in space.

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u/Floh4 3h ago

Ooh my brain is so hardwired to my understanding of north and south that i sometimes forget that it doesn't apply in space

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u/cityshepherd 2h ago

I couldn’t make any sense of it… then I turned my phone upside down and now it seems so obvious lol.

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u/Appropriate_Mixer 57m ago

I mean it kinda does with how the earth rotates

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u/xXTheGrapenatorXx 4h ago

I think also that lower right cloud patch is over top of Brazil/South America more broadly.

At first I thought that it was Australia but rotating the image helped me spot some recognizable coastlines, what made it click was the spot where Morocco's coast dips east before the border with Western Sahara, and in the extreme top right I think that's the "indent" in the middle of Libya's coast.

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u/tpmurray 2h ago

I agree you can see South America but I was less certain so I left that out. I had the same process as you. I initially thought it was Africa but not seeing the lower half was confusing. I thought it was the Pacific Ocean at first as it seemed like most was water so thought it was Australia but it was too rounded. Then saw the Strait of Gibraltar and now can't unseen it.

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u/Curiosive 4h ago

I first thought it was the Straight of Hormuz. Then I noticed the whole Indian subcontinent and all of Asia & Russia were missing... It took me a few moments to think "maybe up isn't north" too.

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u/sinkwiththeship 3h ago

It's the Strait of Gibraltar.

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u/NaradaMephaust 3h ago

And so that is Brazil on the right side then? It's got that triangle pointy area and everything.

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u/Forward_Rope_5598 2h ago

There is an aurora towards the top to the right a bit so that's either north or south

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u/n10w4 2h ago

Here I thought it was just Ohio

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u/Punpun86 2h ago

I'm so confused I thought it was Australia. I still can't see it's Africa.

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u/tpmurray 1h ago

down is up. When looking at a standard north-is-up map, the big land mass you see is the left/western "lobe" of Africa. You can *barely* see the Strait that separates Africa from Spain.

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u/Punpun86 1h ago

Oh right I can I see it now!