Originally posted by Vincen
They are definately photoshopped. I tried clicking the nasa.gov one. There is no media section in the Science.gov site. and if you try to type the direct /URL it gives you Forbidded access.
I am not claiming that some of these pictures have not been altered to create an image as it would appear to the human eye, ( not by me ). There is no denying that this is an trick of the mind and is not captured as well on film. Although the perspective aspects remain in the Photos. Not unlike the Sidewalk chalk drawings in another thread.
NASA does have many pages on their site about the moon illusion phenomenon. It has been observed and reported since Aristotle wrote about it in 350BC.
Here is a link to the NASA science site with pictures and explanations.
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And here is a very cool (non altered) picture of the moon rising and Sun setting over the North Pole.
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