Hi, Staffan,
Welcome to the BABB!
You have most of your facts right, but I want to point out a couple of things...
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On 2002-03-27 15:21, Staffan Norling wrote:
Look at the shadow of the photographer. It is vertical. This prooves that the photographer had the sun in the back when he took the picture.
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It's also the reason for the higher brightness in that part of the picture. The Moon's surface reflects light strongly back toward its source. This is known as specular reflection. It's why the full moon is much brighter than other phases (it's much more than twice as bright as the quarter-moon phase).
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And, i saved the best for the last...this actually made me laugh out loud...
The article says "In Ron Howard's 1995 science fiction movie, Apollo 13, the astronauts lose electrical power and begin worrying about freezing to death. In reality, of course, the relentless bombardment of the Sun's rays would
rapidly have overheated the vehicle to lethal temperatures with no atmosphere into which to dump the heat build up."
What the hell does a science fiction movie have to do with a real world event?? They could as well tell that the moon landing is fake becouse the transporters in StarTrek wouldn't work in reality. lol!
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Actually, "Apollo 13" is not a science fiction movie. It is a historical drama; the events it portrays really happened on a real lunar mission. The capsule really did get cold after the explosion and resulting loss of power. This issue has been much discussed on this board. Almost no one who has investigated the issue thoroughly has any doubt that this is exactly what should and would happen in such a case -- and, in fact, it did.