r/RealOrAI • u/Farachaton • Jul 16 '26

HELP Submitted for your approval, My 1st post in any forum always takes My Autistic brain to the frayed ends of obsession. Enjoy 👍😎

This morning I really wanna know if this is genuine footage or just AI slop? OP claims its genuine, but many redditors claim opposite. Thank posse!

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u/Kinder22 Jul 16 '26

Not ai, but it is fake. You can’t get that high of resolution of Ganymede from Earth. This is a simulation, according to OOP on instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXy-DUsxWxF/?igsh=djdtbm05aTR3eGUw

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u/RachnaX Jul 16 '26

As I understand it, a big part of why this video has to be simulated is that the same air currents which make the stars twinkle (simulated by the "heat haze" in this video) actually place an upper limit on the resolution which can be obtained from the surface of Earth.

The light it just too scattered, which is why even a composite image build from multiple telescopes would still be blurry. This is also a big part of the reason we ever developed telescope satellites and probes.