Modern tech allows more people to capture more things more easily, but when the automation fails there aren't really many manual modes to fall back on.
About 11 years too far back:
> The Nikon D5 is a full frame professional DSLR camera announced by Nikon Corporation on 6 January 2016 to succeed the D4S as its flagship DSLR.
This is exactly what newbies experience when trying to photograph the moon from Earth. It's not intuitively obvious, but the light coming off the moon is essentially full-daylight bright. But the moon is small against a very black background, and depending on how the auto-exposure is operating, this often leads to guessing that the scene as a whole needs a lot more exposure.
I imagine that trying to photograph the Earth when a significant part of what's in view is experiencing daytime, is very much the same thing.
Sheesh, let the lab mice have a breather. Want them to solve physics during the trip?
It's so refreshing to be mesmorised by a picture in the age of shorts and reels.