Saturday, June 8, 2013

First Photo of Earth From Mars


Photo: Earth and the moon, seen from Mars


Photograph courtesy NASA/JPL/Main Space Science Systems
The first Martian's-eye-view of Earth and its moon was captured on May 8, 2003, by a camera aboard NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor craft. Shot from Mars at a distance of 86 million miles (139 million kilometers) from Earth, the image reveals an illuminated slice of Earth’s Western Hemisphere—as well as a celestial perspective of the world in which we live.



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