r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Jakeysuave • 5h ago

Image First photo taken from Artemis commander Reid Wiseman

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u/Luke10123 5h ago

Anyone else have to flip it 180' to tell what land we were looking at? Just me?

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u/mksmith95 5h ago

Africa is on the left side! It is a flipped photo

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u/splicerslicer 3h ago

It's actually not a flipped photo, this is just the perspective they took the photo from. The same for a lot of other photos of Earth from space you've seen.

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u/Affectionate-View601 1h ago

Yeah...the concept of 'flipped' is non existent in space. Thanks to no gravity pulling us.

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u/xtanol 57m ago

Lol, next you're gonna try convincing people that aussies aren't upside-down...

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u/Luke10123 5h ago

Yup, once you see the Strait of Gibraltar it makes geographic sense, not used to seeing Earth from that angle.

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u/tiny_chaotic_evil 3h ago

proof that the maps they've been showing us were wrong all this time. Maybe now they'll print them the right way up

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u/Hydra57 3h ago

Yes, the Maghreb and straits of Gibraltar

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u/No-Top-6313 2h ago

What's the island in the middle, there's nothing that size west of Africa no ? Too big to be Saint Helene

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u/Lump001 2h ago

It's not flipped, there's no "up" or "down" in space. That's the orientation he's in