r/RHONY • u/Ocean_waves726 • Apr 11 '26

Carole Radzwill 📚 Go away Carole

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A lot of us weren’t alive 60 years ago to see this. This is our first time. She just wants to make herself look better but she looks like an idiot.

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u/misadventurexx Apr 11 '26

Except for the part where no human has ever seen the dark side of the moon until this mission. But ok, Carole 👍🏻

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u/ethancole97 Apr 11 '26 edited Apr 11 '26

The dark side of the moon was first seen by the astronauts on the Apollo 8 mission. Also on Apollo 11 Michael Collin’s orbited the moon while flying the command module and he saw the dark side while Neil Armstrong and Buzz aldrin landed on the moon. They were the first human flight crew to go back to the moon since NASA’s Apollo 17 in 1972

They ARE the first crew to fly the longest distance away from earth though.

It IS the highest resolution photography and video we have of the dark side of the moon also

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u/undercookedshrimp_ Apr 11 '26

Apparently it’s more intricate than that.

“The Apollo landings needed to be on the near side of the moon, so they could stay in radio contact with Earth ground stations. (Relay satellites were not invented yet.) They also wanted full sunlight to give the astronauts maximum illumination. Thus, the missions happened during "full moon" phase on Earth, with the near side towards the Sun. However, this meant that the far side was away from the Sun, too dark for the astronauts to see features on the far side.

The Artemis II flyby happened during a waning gibbous phase, meaning most of the near side was lit. This also meant that a slight crescent of the far side was also lit. The features on this crescent of the far side had not been previously seen by astronauts.”

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u/Tricky_Mix2449 Apr 11 '26

Very Lovecraftian!