Here is what Earth looks like from Mars

Javvee

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I can totally see it !

How can you miss that?

It's right there.

Clear eyes, full Earth, can't miss. Wait, really ?

No of course not.

Anyone who tells you that is either a liar or a hawk.

Earth looks incredibly tiny up in that Martian sky.

Sure, if you squint hard enough and fake it long enough, you'll spot it the dot but it's not
unlike looking for dust on a wall.

NASA just posted a picture of the Martian sky and horizon taken by NASA's Curiosity Mars
rover and Earth is a shining light in the sky.

A really, really, really small shining light in the sky. Here's what it looks like without the
cheating label:

That's not a mini dead pixel on your monitor guys, it's Earth. It's us.

Below that speck of blue light is actually the Moon too (that I cannot see for the life of me)
NASA says:


Earth was about 99 million miles (160 million kilometers) away from Mars when Curiosity
took that picture above.


You can see it in clearer detail ....

PIA17936_fig1.jpg


PIA17936_fig2.jpg


Click right mouse button for the bigger picture with zoom.

Regards.
 
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