Why does the earth look so small in pictures taken from the moon, but the moon looks so big to us while on earth?

Question

It seems like all of the pictures taken from the moon show earth as relatively small compared to how the moon looks to me while viewing it most nights.

In: Planetary Science

Answer 1

It doesn’t.

You might be mistaking it as being so due to the general lack of recognizable size context in moon photos, but the moon looks substantially smaller in our sky than the earth does in the moon’s, and that is readily apparent from photos.