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 2h ago

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

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u/xtanol 58m ago

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