On social networks, a video has been shared virally where you can see how a giant moon it appears on the horizon, causes a solar eclipse and disappears after a few seconds. Well, you have to know that it is not real. The video is fake, false, a hoax and really corresponds to the digital creation of an already identified artist. Even so, there are many users who have believed it and many others continue to doubt.
The giant false moon of the North Pole
"Imagine yourself sitting in this place (between Russia and Canada at the North Pole) when the Moon appears for 30 seconds and after blocking the Sun for 5 seconds it disappears again"
With this text, a video has mainly been shared on social networks that, frankly, is very striking due to that giant moon that appears on the horizon at the North Pole, orbits until it eclipses the sun for a few seconds and then disappears. But beyond how spectacular it is, you should know that it is something completely false, it has not happened and could not happen.
In the first place, due to the explanations given by some experts in physics and astronomy, for a phenomenon of these characteristics to occur, some situations would have to occur that we clearly know are impossible. The first is that the moon should have a actual size larger than Earth.
The second is that, even maintaining the same approximate size as the satellite, its position with respect to the planet should be different and be much closer, but that would generate major problems such as disasters generated by high tides that would cause the attraction of the gravity of Moon.
In this 20-minute video, it is explained in much more detail and with data provided by an expert how this video is false due, among other reasons, to how the Moon phases. Something that in the TikTok video is not fulfilled since it appears full, during the time that the orbit passes to a new moon and that is a cycle that takes 28 days to complete, not seconds.
Without resorting to this, only the speed at which the moon appears and disappears in the video, how still the sun is, etc., are reasons that sing about the inaccuracy of this video that has still achieved millions of views.
Who created this viral video
@laryloo
The video was first posted online on May 17 and it was done by a TikTok user named @aleksey_n, a digital artist who has been uploading similar videos on said profile and on those he has on other social networks. The difference is that while others are easier to identify as fake, this one seemed so realistic to many that they thought it had actually happened.
However, this video of the giant moon at the North Pole is not only disassembled and classified as fake for purely physical reasons that make it impossible for it to happen, but also because Aleksey_N himself posted on Twitter that had sold said video as NFT to Smaug.
So if it reaches you and you still doubt its veracity or not, here is both the explanation that makes it impossible for something like this to happen and the demonstration that it is a digital creation like many others that end up reaching social networks and generating confusion among all those who do not stop to think and check what is true in all this. Although we fear that this will continue to happen forever, because it is easier to share again than to verify what is going to be sent to others. And a giant moon is not dangerous and something curious, but other issues can cause major problems.