Comments by "Kevin Skinner" (@kevinskinner4986) on "Today I Found Out" channel.

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  28. First of all, the astronauts were asked TWO questions: whether the stars could be seen from the moon, and whether they could be seen through the solar corona despite the glare in reference to a set of photographs they took. Armstrong straight-up says the stars were NOT visible from the daytime side of the moon. The "can't recall" was in response to the solar corona. The Earth would only look huge if you were teleported there and only in relation to the size the moon normally looks. The astronauts watched it slowly shrink smaller and smaller and smaller and smaller in the windows as they moved away from it. It would look TINY from the moon. If you went around wasting pictures on the Earth and other things because they looked pretty, you'd probably get fired when you got back. The goal isn't to take pretty pictures. It's to take large numbers of pictures of the moon, the thing they are spending a fortune on so that they can be studied. They work for scientists, not Parks and Recreation. There's not a whole lot to be gained from pictures of the Earth from the moon. Any actual study would be done from cameras that are closer and capable of seeing better detail. Besides, they already took dozens of pictures of the Earth, much larger, from the ship on the way there. Also, by the way, the Earth sits in one place in the sky and doesn't move because of the tidal locking. That position is almost straight up from where they landed. You will never catch it in the background with the moon. Apollo 17 has a few shots of it where the camera operator gets bored of watching the astronauts and points the remote control camera on the rover towards it.
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