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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsToday's Moment of Perspective: EARTH SEEN FROM MARS (PHOTO)
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA17936Bright 'Evening Star' Seen from Mars is Earth
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This view of the twilight sky and Martian horizon taken by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover includes Earth as the brightest point of light in the night sky. Earth is a little left of center in the image, and our moon is just below Earth. Two annotated versions of this image are also available in Figures 1 and 2.
Researchers used the left eye camera of Curiosity's Mast Camera (Mastcam) to capture this scene about 80 minutes after sunset on the 529th Martian day, or sol, of the rover's work on Mars (Jan. 31, 2014). The image has been processed to remove effects of cosmic rays.
A human observer with normal vision, if standing on Mars, could easily see Earth and the moon as two distinct, bright "evening stars."
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, manages the Mars Science Laboratory Project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. JPL designed and built the project's Curiosity rover. Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego, built and operates the rover's Mastcam.
More information about Curiosity is online at http://www.nasa.gov/msl and http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/.
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Today's Moment of Perspective: EARTH SEEN FROM MARS (PHOTO) (Original Post)
Hissyspit
Feb 2014
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d_r
(6,907 posts)1. if you look real close
you can see me waving
Dash87
(3,220 posts)3. They'll be sure to bring the 842268953476347742674268447423k camera next time.
Group photo everyone!
riqster
(13,986 posts)2. Kick for the rover!
Hissyspit
(45,788 posts)4. Kick nt