Why dose the earth look the same size as the moon when seen from the mmon?
The Earth appears four times bigger from the Moon, than the Moon does from the Earth. That’s because the distance between them is the same, no matter which direction you’re looking in, and the Earth is four times larger in diameter than the Moon. Both the Earth and the Moon tend to look smaller in pictures than they do to our eyes because of an effect called The Moon Illusion, where objects closer to the horizon appear bigger than objects overhead. Also, you probably have no idea what the focal length was of the lenses used for the pictures. If I recall correctly, the Hasselblads used by the Apollo astronauts were fitted with 50mm wide angle lenses, which would make everything look smaller.
