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NASA released a stunning image on Friday showing our home planet as well as the moon from Mars.
Use of NASA logos, insignia and emblems is restricted per U.S. law 14 CFR 1221.; The NASA website hosts a large number of images from the Soviet/Russian space agency, and other non-American space agencies.
English: This composite image of Earth and its moon, as seen from Mars, combines the best Earth image with the best moon image from four sets of images acquired on Nov. 20, 2016, by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Each was separately processed prior to combining them so that ...
The Day the Earth Smiled is a composite photograph taken by the NASA spacecraft Cassini on July 19, 2013. During an eclipse of the Sun , the spacecraft turned to image Saturn and most of its visible ring system , as well as Earth and the Moon as distant pale dots.
Earth and Moon, imaged by Mars Global Surveyor from its orbit around Mars on May 8, 2003, 13:00 UTC. South America is visible. [25] [26] 2014 Curiosity 's first view of the Earth and the Moon from the surface of Mars (January 31, 2014). [27] 2016 Earth and the Moon as viewed from orbit around Mars (MRO; HiRISE; November 20, 2016) [28]
That's actually the planet Mars. Here's HLN: 'The planet is expected to line up with Earth and. ... you might notice what looks like a bright star with an orange tint. That's actually the planet Mars.
Earth's angular diameter (1.9°) is four times the Moon's as seen from Earth, although because the Moon's orbit is eccentric, Earth's apparent size in the sky varies by about 5% either way (ranging between 1.8° and 2.0° in diameter). Earth shows phases, just like the Moon does for terrestrial observers. The phases, however, are opposite; when ...
The Blue Marble is a photograph of Earth taken on December 7, 1972, by either Ron Evans or Harrison Schmitt aboard the Apollo 17 spacecraft on its way to the Moon.Viewed from around 29,400 km (18,300 mi) from Earth's surface, [1] a cropped and rotated version has become one of the most reproduced images in history.