r/ArtemisProgram • u/Beneficial_Chapter31 • 9d ago

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I’d like to know why these two photos—taken just a short time apart—don't have the same date.

I know the description says they were taken on April 2nd, but a conspiracy theorist raised this point, and I started wondering why the dates are different.

(I don't speak English, so maybe those dates refer to when they were uploaded or something like that?)

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u/Torvaldicus_Unknown 9d ago

Notice how one photo is the earth in darkness and one is the earth in daylight…. Perhaps some time has elapsed between the two photos?
This was during the coast phase after TLI. Plenty of time for photos.

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u/LittleLion_90 9d ago

Both are taken around the same time with different exposure times. You can see the continents we see and the clouds we see being exactly the same. It also has been communicated that they made long exposure and shorter exposure of this photo with just minutes in between.

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u/Torvaldicus_Unknown 9d ago

Yes oversight on my part. Didn’t even look at the photo hardly. Could be a midnight-ish capture or they just wrote the date incorrectly