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Apollo 11: Armstrong's Lunar Selfie

Explanation: A photograph of Buzz Aldrin standing on the Moon taken by Neil Armstrong, was digitally reversed to create this lunar selfie. Captured in July 1969 following the Apollo 11 moon landing, Armstrong's original photograph recorded not only the magnificent desolation of an unfamiliar world, but Armstrong himself reflected in Aldrin's curved visor. In the unwrapped image, the spherical distortion of the reflection in Aldrin's helmet has been reversed. The transformed view features Armstrong himself from Aldrin's perspective. Since Armstrong took the original picture, today the image represents a fifty-four year old lunar selfie. Aldrin's visor reflection in the original image appears here on the left. Bright (but distorted) planet Earth hangs in the lunar sky above Armstrong's figure, toward the upper right. A foil-wrapped leg of the Eagle lander and Aldrin's long shadow stretching across the lunar surface are prominently visible. In 2024 NASA's Artemis II mission will return humans to the Moon.

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All things considered, I prefer Armstrong's lunar portrait of Buzz Aldrin over his lunar selfie.

Ann

Hmm. Of course pictures of Armstrong et al. on the Moon are testimonies of some of mankind's greatest achievements and it's wonderful to see such images. But please, please, let's not use the term lunar "selfie", an unfortunate anachronism! Those damn narcissistic selfies are all the rage nowadays, whereas we usually love nature images unspoiled by humans…
"The magnificient desolation of an unfamiliar world" also says the APOD. That's what I love to see when I look at the moon! No traces of humans, just the otherworldly beauty of the cosmos.
And if one day I have a telescope powerful enough to spot a national flag on the moon, what a turn-off this will be!
Apologies for my half-serious off-topic rant.

Chris Alex wrote: ↑Sat Jul 22, 2023 12:14 pm Hmm. Of course pictures of Armstrong et al. on the Moon are testimonies of some of mankind's greatest achievements and it's wonderful to see such images. But please, please, let's not use the term lunar "selfie", an unfortunate anachronism! Those damn narcissistic selfies are all the rage nowadays, whereas we usually love nature images unspoiled by humans…
"The magnificient desolation of an unfamiliar world" also says the APOD. That's what I love to see when I look at the moon! No traces of humans, just the otherworldly beauty of the cosmos.
And if one day I have a telescope powerful enough to spot a national flag on the moon, what a turn-off this will be!
Apologies for my half-serious off-topic rant.

"...And the yellow soft mountains
Grow very still
Witness as intrusion
The humanoid thrill."

- from Jethro Tull, "For Michael Collins, Jeffery, and Me", 1970

zendae1 wrote: ↑Sat Jul 22, 2023 2:41 pm

Chris Alex wrote: ↑Sat Jul 22, 2023 12:14 pm Hmm. Of course pictures of Armstrong et al. on the Moon are testimonies of some of mankind's greatest achievements and it's wonderful to see such images. But please, please, let's not use the term lunar "selfie", an unfortunate anachronism! Those damn narcissistic selfies are all the rage nowadays, whereas we usually love nature images unspoiled by humans…
"The magnificient desolation of an unfamiliar world" also says the APOD. That's what I love to see when I look at the moon! No traces of humans, just the otherworldly beauty of the cosmos.
And if one day I have a telescope powerful enough to spot a national flag on the moon, what a turn-off this will be!
Apologies for my half-serious off-topic rant.

"...And the yellow soft mountains
Grow very still
Witness as intrusion
The humanoid thrill."

- from Jethro Tull, "For Michael Collins, Jeffery, and Me", 1970

Sorry, when the LEM ascended mast and flag was destroyed, now the flag is somewhere on the lunar soil

Sa Ji Tario wrote: ↑Sat Jul 22, 2023 3:52 pm

zendae1 wrote: ↑Sat Jul 22, 2023 2:41 pm

Chris Alex wrote: ↑Sat Jul 22, 2023 12:14 pm Hmm. Of course pictures of Armstrong et al. on the Moon are testimonies of some of mankind's greatest achievements and it's wonderful to see such images. But please, please, let's not use the term lunar "selfie", an unfortunate anachronism! Those damn narcissistic selfies are all the rage nowadays, whereas we usually love nature images unspoiled by humans…
"The magnificient desolation of an unfamiliar world" also says the APOD. That's what I love to see when I look at the moon! No traces of humans, just the otherworldly beauty of the cosmos.
And if one day I have a telescope powerful enough to spot a national flag on the moon, what a turn-off this will be!
Apologies for my half-serious off-topic rant.

"...And the yellow soft mountains
Grow very still
Witness as intrusion
The humanoid thrill."

- from Jethro Tull, "For Michael Collins, Jeffery, and Me", 1970

Sorry, when the LEM ascended mast and flag was destroyed, now the flag is somewhere on the lunar soil

I doubt they were destroyed. Just blown over so they are lying on the surface.

Armstrong's selfie!
NASA's Artemis II coming soon!