Moon Mission Photos: Hype vs Reality

0:00Artemis II just looped around the moon, first crewed flyby in over 50 years with four NASA astronauts aboard the Orion capsule. Social media exploded with stunning moon photos and videos claimed straight from the spacecraft, but most ain't what they seem. Turns out, a bunch of ground shots from telescopes and DSLRs, like Ukrainian photographer Ildar Ivatullin's epic 50 megapixel image, he stacked tens of thousands of frames from a cannon 550D and 150mm scope, turning 50 gigs of data into a colorful map of. Lunar minerals and reds, browns, and blues. Folks on X and Facebook pass these off as fresh Orion views, hyping them as the best ever. Even Elon Musk reposted one, calling it Artemis passing the moon, but it was old footage from Artemis one three years back. Then there's the wild AI-fakes, flooding feeds, showing Earth with the moon orbiting way too close on his dark side, or blue tinted craters with fake.

1:00Crew members that don't match the real team of two Y-guys, a black pilot and a woman specialist. Some even have shadows of things moving on the surface. Official NASA drops are just playing gray moon shots, no drama. As height builds for these missions, double check your sources before sharing that viral glow-up. That's your Calgary News Today update, AI-powered and always on.