{"id":55558,"date":"2021-07-22T18:44:40","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T13:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.www.bullfrag.com\/we-know-what-aldrin-saw-on-the-moon-thanks-to-the-reflection-of-his-helmet\/"},"modified":"2021-07-22T18:44:40","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T13:14:40","slug":"we-know-what-aldrin-saw-on-the-moon-thanks-to-the-reflection-of-his-helmet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bullfrag.com\/we-know-what-aldrin-saw-on-the-moon-thanks-to-the-reflection-of-his-helmet\/","title":{"rendered":"We know what Aldrin saw on the moon thanks to the reflection of his helmet"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The iconic image of Buzz Aldrin on the Moon was taken by Neil Armstrong. Now, 52 years after photography, it has been used to see exactly what the astronaut observed thanks to the reflection seen in the visor of your helmet<\/strong>, as explained in Science Alert<\/a><\/em>. A Reddit user has been commissioned to make this work so interesting. And now we can all see the same as Aldrin and feel what it’s like to be on the moon; even if it is a somewhat unreal feeling. <\/p>\n

Michael Ranger<\/strong>, the Reddit user behind the pseudonym rg1213<\/a>He has done an impressive job to bring this image to all of us. In the forum entry he explains that he enlarged the visor of Aldrin’s helmet and since it is a mirror ball, he unwrapped <\/em>in a 2D image. After this he opened it with Google Street View<\/em> and he already had the image of what the astronaut saw when Armstrong took the photograph. Also, before all this, he had to search the iconic image in high quality<\/strong> to be able to carry out all this.<\/p>\n

The Moon: this is the image seen in the reflection of Buzz Aldrin’s helmet<\/h2>\n

In the image you can see that Buzz Aldrin is close to the lunar module; Armstrong with the Hasselblad camera at chest height and, if you look closely, at the top of the visor you can see the Earth. <\/p>\n

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