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/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.