This is simply a difference in optics. For example, if you hold a camera close near someone's face with the whole face in the viewfinder, their nose looks bigger than if you stand 100 feet away and use a telephoto lens and crop to hold the whole face. Yet in both cases you might have the overall face be the same size as far as the picture size. The lens focal length affects perspective.
The same object can look different at the same scale because of perspective of the viewer. You have no experience in photography or perspective in art - both of which explain this. I'll see if I can find a link to a clear explanation that will set you right. Then you'll see.
Here: same size glass in each case, but it is distorted by focal length. The same thing applies to satellite cameras and the earth. The earth can be the ssme size in two pictures but it can be distorted in one picture due to different perspective of view.
This is simply a difference in optics. For example, if you hold a camera close near someone's face with the whole face in the viewfinder, their nose looks bigger than if you stand 100 feet away and use a telephoto lens and crop to hold the whole face. Yet in both cases you might have the overall face be the same size as far as the picture size. The lens focal length affects perspective.
These are artist depictions it has nothing to do with what you said
I'm sure the guys here think real-estate photos where houses look bigger than they are proves that houses don't exist.
The same object can look different at the same scale because of perspective of the viewer. You have no experience in photography or perspective in art - both of which explain this. I'll see if I can find a link to a clear explanation that will set you right. Then you'll see.
Here: same size glass in each case, but it is distorted by focal length. The same thing applies to satellite cameras and the earth. The earth can be the ssme size in two pictures but it can be distorted in one picture due to different perspective of view.
https://photofocus.com/photography/quick-tip-focal-length-and-distortion/
I won't beat you over the head, but I disagree. It is okay to be doubtful but one also has to be sure one's on the right track.