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Originally posted by Sazare
If that is Earth in this picture, I'm still not grasping how the Moon looks bigger to us than Earth looks to the Moon. The distance is the same; the only difference is size (and last I checked the Earth is quite a bit bigger than the Moon). It should be the other way around, if my logic follows.
I feel like I'm missing something obvious but ![psyduck](images/smilies/images/smilies/psyduck.gif)
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There's a term for that, I can't remember what.
But because of the atmosphere in Earth, the view you see of the moon is slightly distorted, and maybe not as what it seems, while on the moon, there are no atmosphere so WYSIWYG.