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Undertoad 03-04-2008 06:21 PM
March 4, 2008: Earth and Moon from Mars
 
http://cellar.org/2008/earthandmoonfrommars.jpg

per NASA:

Quote:
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.

Aliantha 03-04-2008 07:16 PM
They look so lonely

spudcon 03-04-2008 08:02 PM
Great picture, awesome technology!

xoxoxoBruce 03-04-2008 09:52 PM
The Earth looks lumpy.

classicman 03-04-2008 10:32 PM
that is awesome - what amazing capabilities we have created. Too bad so many of them are destroying us at the same time.

HungLikeJesus 03-04-2008 10:43 PM
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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 436752)
The Earth looks lumpy.
Sorry. I did that.

spudcon 03-04-2008 11:38 PM
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Originally Posted by HungLikeJesus (Post 436763)
Sorry. I did that.
Oh good, I thought I did it.

SPUCK 03-05-2008 04:18 AM
You know... I wish they could've gotten the Sun into the picture too.
THAT would be awesome!

nil_orally 03-05-2008 05:13 AM
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Originally Posted by SPUCK (Post 436787)
You know... I wish they could've gotten the Sun into the picture too.
THAT would be awesome!
If they let me know when they are taking the next shot, I will bend over.

Trilby 03-05-2008 06:37 AM
the earth looks like the side view of a mammogram.

mammograms on the mind, I guess. :D

tw 03-05-2008 07:58 AM
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Originally Posted by Brianna (Post 436791)
the earth looks like the side view of a mammogram.
Do you see any suspicous legions?
Or is that lesions?

LabRat 03-05-2008 09:03 AM
Cool. My new desktop. So simple, yet, so profound. Or something.

Saphyre 03-05-2008 11:01 AM
Spectacular!

Diaphone Jim 03-05-2008 12:22 PM
Shopped at Roswell, just like all the other NASA stuff that purports to be from the Moon, Mars or Saturn, etc.

classicman 03-05-2008 12:53 PM
:alien:


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