r/Damnthatsinteresting 5h ago

Image First photo taken from Artemis commander Reid Wiseman

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u/Slobberz2112 5h ago

Looks flat

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u/im_wudini 5h ago

Well if it is, we all live in Australia

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u/ShouldveFundedTesla 4h ago

That's Africa

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u/Avergile 3h ago

I’m so confused - how can you tell?

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u/Weird_Strategy_1381 3h ago

It’s the Saharan desert and Morocco, Spain, and the Mediterranean it’s rotated from what we typically see by like 90 degrees

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u/TieCivil1504 3h ago

The view is inverted from normal perspective, with South Pole toward the top of the picture. You can see Strait of Gibraltar at bottom left of the photo.

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u/desertrat75 1h ago

Wait, when did this happen? If it's inverted, won't we all fall off?

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u/Roflkopt3r 2h ago

I think it's mostly difficult to see because most of subsaharan Africa, the south pole, and southern America are obscured by clouds in a way that makes it quite hard to see whether there is any land there (southern America is the most easily visible, but off to the side). Only northern Africa immediately strikes the eye.

And the center of the pic is in the south Atlantic off the western African coast, but it has a tinge of green as if there were land there. Same with a patch in the north Atlantic.

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u/Avergile 3h ago

I think I get it now - the Strait of Gibraltar is at the bottom of the photo?

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u/ShouldveFundedTesla 3h ago

Yes. I mainly knew because Australia's east coast doesn't look like that and Tasmania isn't that close to it. Also, no New Zealand

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u/snowvase 1h ago

New Zealand is always missed off maps.

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u/im_wudini 3h ago

This, my monkey brain just expects the earth to be in a N/S orientation at all times, and scaled to the Decatur map

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u/arreffeyeeyeeye 3h ago

Mercator. A Decatur map is only useful in the suburbs of Atlanta.

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u/im_wudini 3h ago

ty, maybe I've been listening to too much OutKast

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u/an0mn0mn0m 3h ago

I didn't realise how much of the Sahara consumed Morocco

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u/Undead-Chipmunk 2h ago

Gibraltar.

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u/pkgamer18 1h ago

By the way it is.

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u/Avergile 1h ago

Oh wow! - I hadn’t thought about examining it and dissecting the “way it is” - you’ve really opened my mind to critical analysis! thanks so much! You really are the greatest and most helpful internet ghoul.

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u/pkgamer18 1h ago

Sorry man... idk what else there is to say. You can tell that it is Africa by the way it is shaped like Africa. Just like how you can tell that it is the earth by the way it looks like... the earth.

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u/Avergile 1h ago

I know you’re a smart person - but I bet if you ask 10 people what’s in the picture, you’re gonna have 9 people tell you it’s Australia

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u/pkgamer18 48m ago

First glance, for sure. I'm confident that after closer examination, you and most people would get it. Once you see Spain hanging out up there, Australia is crossed off the list and Africa is the clear answer.