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Earth and Moon as seen from Mars

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16 years 9 months ago #65025 by Petermark
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We actually look larger than I thought we would from that distance.

Ahem..... It's a magnified scene Seanie.

Some more gems:

Voyager:
nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/planetary/earth/vgr_earth_moon.jpg

Galileo:
nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/planetary/earth/gal_earth_moon.jpg

NEAR (Looking “up” at Antarctica):
nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/planetary/earth/near_earth_moon.jpg

Clementine:
nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/planetary/earth/clem_earth_moon.jpg

Apollo:
nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/planetary/eart...ollo08_earthrise.jpg

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16 years 9 months ago #65026 by Petermark
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Almost forgot.

This is the first photo of the earth taken from the surface of another planet:

www.cybercityradio.com/earth-from-mars.htm

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16 years 9 months ago #65054 by Euronymous
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Looks good. But nothing we haven't seen in Celestia already! Good to see it for real though

Celestron C8-N (200mm reflector)
Carl Zeiss 10x50's
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16 years 9 months ago #65068 by Petermark
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One of my favourite earth images was taken from Saturn.
The little blue orb is clearly visible peeking out behind the rings.
Smile for the camera everybody:
us.st11.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/spaceimages_1988_89648672

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