{"id":46043,"date":"2019-09-12T20:44:53","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T15:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=46043"},"modified":"2019-09-12T20:44:53","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T15:14:53","slug":"digitally-created-images-shared-as-first-photographs-of-earth-sent-by-chandrayaan-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/digitally-created-images-shared-as-first-photographs-of-earth-sent-by-chandrayaan-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Digitally created images shared as ‘first photographs of Earth’ sent by Chandrayaan-2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several images are floating on social media as ‘first photographs of Earth take by Chandrayaan-2’.\u00a0“\u091a\u0902\u0926\u094d\u0930\u092f\u093e\u0928-2 \u0928\u0947 \u0916\u0940\u0902\u091a\u0940 \u092a\u0943\u0925\u094d\u0935\u0940 \u092e\u093e\u0901 \u0915\u0940 \u092a\u0939\u0932\u0940 \u095e\u094b\u091f\u094b\u0964 \u0906\u092a \u092d\u0940 \u0926\u0947\u0916\u093f\u090f \u0914\u0930 \u0928\u093f\u0939\u093e\u0932 \u0939\u094b \u091c\u093e\u0907\u090f \u0915\u093f \u0939\u092e \u092c\u094d\u0930\u092e\u094d\u0939\u093e\u0923\u094d\u0921 \u0915\u0947 \u0915\u093f\u0924\u0928\u0947 \u0905\u0926\u094d\u092d\u0941\u0924 \u0938\u094d\u0925\u0932 \u092a\u0930 \u0930\u0939\u0924\u0947 \u0939\u0948\u0902\u0964 (First photographs of Earth clicked by Chandrayaan-2. You can also see that we live in such an incredible place in the universe.)” –\u00a0<\/em>wrote a user while posting the images on the Facebook group ‘Chirkut baba ke crazy vachan Group.’<\/a> Her post was liked 5,500 times and shared 3,300 times at the time of writing.<\/p>\n

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Fact-check<\/h2>\n

Alt News found that all the images shared were either old and digitally created thus do not represent images transmitted by the Indian spacecraft.<\/p>\n

Image 1<\/h3>\n

This image was uploaded<\/a> by\u00a0NASA\u00a0<\/em>in 2008 and is captioned as ‘animation’.<\/p>\n

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In another related article<\/a>,\u00a0NASA\u00a0<\/em>described it as, “artist’s concept of a substorm.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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Image 2<\/h3>\n

The image below was found on a website<\/a> that described it as –\u00a0“Space wallpapers HD for Android.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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Image 3<\/h3>\n

The third image was found uploaded by a website<\/a> in 2012 as ‘iPhone wallpapers’.<\/p>\n

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Image 4<\/h3>\n

This is a poster from the 2009\u00a0Nicolas Cage\u00a0<\/span>movie\u00a0\u2018<\/a>KNOWING\u2019<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Image 5<\/h3>\n

We found this image on a\u00a02004<\/a>\u00a0blog- 3D wallpapers for Windows phone.<\/p>\n

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Similar misinformation was circulated when after Chandrayaan-2 was launched in July. Alt News’s earlier fact-check can be read here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Several images are floating on social media as ‘first photographs of Earth take by Chandrayaan-2’.\u00a0“\u091a\u0902\u0926\u094d\u0930\u092f\u093e\u0928-2 \u0928\u0947 \u0916\u0940\u0902\u091a\u0940 \u092a\u0943\u0925\u094d\u0935\u0940 \u092e\u093e\u0901 \u0915\u0940 \u092a\u0939\u0932\u0940 \u095e\u094b\u091f\u094b\u0964 \u0906\u092a \u092d\u0940 \u0926\u0947\u0916\u093f\u090f \u0914\u0930 \u0928\u093f\u0939\u093e\u0932 \u0939\u094b \u091c\u093e\u0907\u090f \u0915\u093f \u0939\u092e \u092c\u094d\u0930\u092e\u094d\u0939\u093e\u0923\u094d\u0921 \u0915\u0947 \u0915\u093f\u0924\u0928\u0947 \u0905\u0926\u094d\u092d\u0941\u0924 \u0938\u094d\u0925\u0932 \u092a\u0930 \u0930\u0939\u0924\u0947 \u0939\u0948\u0902\u0964 (First photographs of Earth clicked by Chandrayaan-2. You can also see that we live in such […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":46064,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[739],"coauthors":[141],"class_list":["post-46043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","fact_checks_claim_type-viral-photos","an_content_type-fact-check"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/09\/Untitled-design-33.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46043"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46067,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46043\/revisions\/46067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46043"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=46043"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=46043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}