{"id":1447737,"date":"2022-04-20T13:05:57","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T17:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1447737"},"modified":"2022-04-20T13:06:08","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T17:06:08","slug":"fact-check-did-the-russian-probe-capture-a-graphic-of-lights-on-the-other-side-of-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-the-russian-probe-capture-a-graphic-of-lights-on-the-other-side-of-the-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Did The Russian Probe Capture A GRAPHIC Of Lights ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE Moon?"},"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\">36<\/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-did-the-russian-probe-capture-a-graphic-of-lights-on-the-other-side-of-the-moon%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=1447737&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--><div><\/div>\n<p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=507427590927584&#038;set=gm.520304966263402\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> allegedly shows a picture taken by a Russian space probe that shows lights radiating from the far side of the moon.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span>Fact Check:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The photo is from a NASA space probe and shows lights on the dwarf planet Ceres, not the moon.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Lunik 3, a Soviet Union satellite, took the first photographs of the Moon\u2019s far side in 1959, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/onthisday\/hi\/dates\/stories\/october\/26\/newsid_4045000\/4045913.stm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BBC News<\/a>. In 2019, China\u2019s Chang\u2019e-4 lunar mission landed on the far side of the moon becoming the first human-built lunar object to touchdown in the area, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/science\/article\/china-change-4-historic-landing-moon-far-side-explained\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Geographic<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The Facebook image, shared over 340 times, shows what appears to be a small area of bright spots visible on a celestial body. \u201cA Russian space probe has captured what appears to be a city full of lights on the far side of the Moon,\u201d the caption states, though it does not give a date for when the photo was taken. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2019\/11\/25\/fact-check-nasa-165-million-develop-space-pens-fisher\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Did NASA Spend More Than $165 Million To Develop Pens That Work In Space?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The photo does not show the moon. NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/images\/pia22485-last-look-ceres\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">published<\/a> the photo in November 2018 along with a caption that explains it shows the Occator Crater on <a href=\"https:\/\/solarsystem.nasa.gov\/planets\/dwarf-planets\/ceres\/overview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ceres<\/a>, a dwarf planet located between Mars and Jupiter. The photo was captured in September 2018 by NASA\u2019s Dawn spacecraft during the final phase of its mission, the laboratory reported.<\/p>\n<p>NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/jpl\/mystery-solved-bright-areas-on-ceres-come-from-salty-water-below\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced<\/a> in 2020 the glowing spots on the surface are composed of deposits of sodium, carbon and oxygen. The bright spots likely formed due to liquid that evaporated after rising to the dwarf planet\u2019s surface, creating a reflective salt crust, though it is unclear where the liquid originated from, the announcement stated.<\/p>\n<p>Russian aerospace company NPO Lavochkin is planning to launch the Luna-25 space probe in August, the country\u2019s first mission to the moon in over 40 years, state media agency RIA Novosti <a href=\"https:\/\/ria.ru\/20220412\/luna-1783058038.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook allegedly shows a picture taken by a Russian space probe that shows lights radiating from the far side of the moon.Fact Check: The photo is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":1447749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1447737","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\/1447737","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\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1447737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1447749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1447737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1447737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1447737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}