Sad to note how ‘grey’ earth now appears compared to the famous earthrise photo from way back.
Never trust colors in a photograph…
Are we seeing gravitational lensing in pic 3?
It looks like it on the top left and bottom right.
These pics from a dark far side are the most awesome thing! 
Sorry. My upper left circle is wonky
Actually getting to see stars and planets from the moon is awesome.
I don’t know. It does look similar. So something behind the sun is being lensed? The moon just happens to help us not be blinded?
I had a similar conversation with someone on Twitch. It was new moon when they lifted off (maybe 1-2day after?) , meaning the front side is lit. And it takes them 4 days to fly behind the moon. So maybe it’s up to a week after the new moon. So we will see the far side only half lit? Not optimal to explore it visually. 
The most commonly reproduced picture is a well lit one where we see half a mare and half the far side. If they had started on a different day, they could have taken a pic of the lit far side of the moon, completely without maria, that would have looked very alien. 
I’m sure most people don’t, and they are also completely not interested. 
Even some NMS players use the words star system / galaxy interchangeably. It’s explained in school on one day, when someone misses it, they don’t even know they don’t know, because the concepts and vocabulary are never needed during daily life…
In contrast to e.g. timezones, which are obscure but needed in daily life. But you can just learn those by heart without understanding them, nobody will challenge you, because they are so irregular. Try to calculate the offsets, it’s tough: pick places in Australia, the Americas, and EMEA, and draw/verbalise the recent DST switch. Australia switches backwards, the Americas and Europe switch on different days, several interesting combinations… 
For every eclipse, the news explain eclipses again and again, and nobody (except nerds) cares about the same static diagram with flat circles and lines.
Or if someone talks about horoscopes and says, “you were born with the sun in that sign”, and you mention that the zodiac is actually one constellation off, shifted several degrees after thousands of years, or that the sun even spends time in a 13th constellation, they don’t care, this aspect of reality means nothing to most people. 
It’s just not tangible.
Thanks for the tip, I also subscribed to the Nasa Twitch.
There was a Nasa Twitch drop (I don’t even know what it is, a chat profile icon?) that I missed by minutes because I switched to an unofficial channel. I hope watching the above will unlock it. 
Should be able to get it with their return, yes.
Actually, another site shows 2 drops. Hmmm, and requires linking your Science & Technology game account? Not quite sure I understand what they are referring to
That text was just generated off the standard template that advertises in-game DLC trinkets, they merely forgot to use the template that advertises … governmental… research… agencies…? 
These are science and technology games used by educators in classroom situations.
They never had stuff like this when I was in school….lucky kids.
We had one in the nineties! It was Niki der Roboter, a modernised version is still available and in use today.
You had to steer a robot on a topdown 2D map to pick up boxes in a room with obstacles—by pre-programming it. It had commands like
- goforward and turnleft, and we had to define a custom function “turnright” that called turnleft 3x.
- It had sensors that could answer yes/no whether they saw a box or obstacle in front of it (used with if-then-else).
- And it could repeat commands, e.g. we used that to go forward while no obstacle was seen.
As an adult, I realise that is a sneaky way to teach imperative programming (sequences, conditional branching with booleans, loops)! Was very useful.
Was trying to get some pics and I lost all internet suddenly. Like everyone was sucking up all bandwidth at the same moment 
Now if only the dang phone would work 
Time for the inspection. 
Open hatch
My son says this was just a 10 day trip from Florida to California
What a knot!
the collar is going on
Here comes the front porch
