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Above is a photo released by NASA, of the Earth and Moon as seen from Mars.
This is an image of Earth and the moon, acquired on October 3, 2007, by the HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
At the time the image was taken, Earth was 142 million kilometers (88 million miles) from Mars, giving the HiRISE image a scale of 142 kilometers (88 miles) per pixel, an Earth diameter of about 90 pixels and a moon diameter of 24 pixels. The phase angle is 98 degrees, which means that less than half of the disk of the Earth and the disk of the moon have direct illumination. We could image Earth and moon at full disk illumination only when they are on the opposite side of the sun from Mars, but then the range would be much greater and the image would show less detail.
Link at NASA
Tags:EarthPhotos,MoonPhotos,NASAPhotos
Really cool, great picture. It’s the first time I’ve seen it, too bad it will be stolen by other bloggers and I’ll have to StumbleUpon it more times.
That is beutiful
I think it was staged!
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