{"id":1031576,"date":"2021-11-19T10:29:02","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T15:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1031576"},"modified":"2021-11-19T10:29:10","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T15:29:10","slug":"fact-check-no-this-image-of-a-sunset-from-space-was-not-captured-by-nasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-no-this-image-of-a-sunset-from-space-was-not-captured-by-nasa\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: No, This Image Of A Sunset From Space Was Not Captured By NASA"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-no-this-image-of-a-sunset-from-space-was-not-captured-by-nasa%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1031576&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>An image&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/297580451864721\/posts\/313017313654368\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Starvoyagers01\/photos\/a.101225609037665\/106885191805040\/?type%3D3%26theater&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1637085630839000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3lX1kKeKFVvt4ZtfuT6Vcj\">shared on Facebook<\/a> more than 650 times claims to show a NASA photograph of a sunset taken from space.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7324111\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7324111\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Facebook\/Screenshot<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The image is not a photo taken by NASA from space but rather a screen grab of a computer-generated video of a sunrise.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Social media users have been sharing an image that appears to show an orbital view of the Earth and the distant sun. \u201cThis is what sunset on earth looks like from space,\u201d reads the caption of one such post, which credits the photograph to NASA and the International Space Station (ISS). <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/02\/24\/fact-check-video-audio-captured-mars-perseverance-rover\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Does This Video Show Footage Captured By The Perseverance Mars Rover)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The photo, however, is a screen grab from a computer-generated video. A reverse image search reveals the same visual can be found within a 19-second video, titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pond5.com\/stock-footage\/item\/95674406-sunrise-space-earth-space-version-2018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sunrise From Space. Earth From Space. Version 2018<\/a><span class=\"u-paddingR10px u-padding0:35px\" data-qa=\"itemDetail-title\">,\u201d on the website POND5. As the title states, the video shows a sunrise, not a sunset. <\/span><span class=\"u-paddingR10px u-padding0:35px\" data-qa=\"itemDetail-title\">The video\u2019s description explains it was created by \u201cPixel25,\u201d an artist based in Germany. An examination of Pixel25\u2019s profile on POND5 makes clear the artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pond5.com\/stock-footage\/item\/62395230-zoom-earth-space-fast-flight-earth-earth-space\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">specializes<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pond5.com\/stock-footage\/item\/54250826-hearts-and-clouds-sunrise-earth-space\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">computer-generated<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pond5.com\/stock-footage\/item\/62395290-flying-over-moon-rising-earth-earth-moon-earth-space\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">videos<\/a> of space and Earth.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeautiful atmospheric sunrise from Earth orbit,\u201d reads the video\u2019s caption. \u201cRealistic clouds and atmosphere. View from ISS. Contains space, sun, world, planet. Sat Img by NASA.\u201d The artist has created other videos with similar views, such as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pond5.com\/stock-footage\/item\/60421587-sunrise-space-earth-space\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sunrise From Space. Earth From Space<\/a>\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pond5.com\/stock-footage\/item\/114618243-beautiful-colors-atmosphere-sunrise-space\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Beautiful Colors Of Atmosphere Sunrise From Space<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A NASA spokesperson told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/factcheck\/2021\/11\/12\/fact-check-image-sunset-earth-seen-space-cgi\/6347099001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">USA Today<\/a> that the agency was \u201cnot able to definitively trace the image to an official NASA source.\u201d Genuine pictures taken of sunsets from the ISS can be found on NASA\u2019s website, such as this <a href=\"https:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/images\/44267\/sunset-from-the-international-space-station=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one<\/a> taken in 2010 and this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/image-feature\/sunset-from-the-international-space-station\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one<\/a> from 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image\u00a0shared on Facebook more than 650 times claims to show a NASA photograph of a sunset taken from space.Facebook\/ScreenshotVerdict: False The image is not a photo taken by NASA &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}