Bonus eclipse photo!

More pics are being uploaded here: https://images.nasa.gov/

update they posted earthrise too

something something half earth

The eclipse photo might be my favorite from the mission so far. That's an incredible shot.

Tell me I'm the only one seeing a worm on the moon surface 😳

Shai Hulud 🙏

New phone background found

I see they've turned off the GPS coordinates in the EXIF data, to stop us from knowing that these images were created in a VFX studio in Hollywood.

Can't pull the wool over my eyes, man!

hope we will still alive to be able to see their awesome shots of earth with all the mushroom plumes from the nuclear bombs going off

Just out of interest but what is the GPS coordinates of Luna orbit?

Well, those guys wouldn't be able to tell you...

That eclipse photo is absolutely stupendous, worthy of its own post! Are those brighter trio of stars planets?

I know nothing about this so it is purely speculation, but my first thought would be that it simply wouldn’t work.

But from a purely mathematical standpoint, the gps receiver would probably be able to see the satellites just fine, so assuming that worked, it could triangulate its position as the point on earth closest to them (the middle of the globe from their perspective), and then just give them an extremely high altitude.

That said, I know consumer technology (I believe they are using an iPhone) automatically turns off gps if it detects you are flying at a high enough speed, to prevent you from using it to guide a missile.

they’ve turned off the GPS coordinates

GPS

Global PS

Global Playstation

Oh. My. God.

They have a Playstation on the moon.

And if you look really close on the right hand side, you can just make out the disturbed ground surrounding the entrance to the underground Chinese base.

Yep! Saturn, Mars, and Mercury, respectively

It should work, NASA is working on it. https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/somd/space-communications-navigation-program/nasa-successfully-acquires-gps-signals-on-moon/

Nice. Prime seat for nuclear war :3

Can we go back to worshipping celestial bodies? Please uwu

Flyby photos were just uploaded! https://www.nasa.gov/gallery/lunar-flyby/

it's especially cool how close the moon feels. as if it's finally in reach again.

Stardate 2747472016542839.1

Off topic, but how cool would it be if NASA started its own Pixelfed server for official pictures like this?

Or one of these blokes.

The "download" buttons link to images that end in ~large.jpg but if you change them to ~orig.jpg you get the original images (they even still have the EXIF data).