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9 comments to "Our Earth and Moon, as seen from Mars"
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Sofar
March 4th, 2008 at
9:54 pm
That’s very pretty. The Earth is not visible as a disc from Mars, but it’d still be a pretty blue dot.
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Adam Stanhope
March 4th, 2008 at
9:55 pm
HiRISE lives on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter which is in Mars’ orbit. It’s hair-splitting, I know, but the photo of Earth and our moon comes from Mars orbit - not Mars itself.
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Johnny Cat
March 4th, 2008 at
9:59 pm
I can see my house!
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Ali S.
March 4th, 2008 at
10:07 pm
I had the opening scene from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey playing in my head the moment I saw this. Gorgeous stuff!
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electro^plankton
March 4th, 2008 at
10:14 pm
So this is what I would see waking up each morning on Mars. NEATORAMA!
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aj
March 4th, 2008 at
10:42 pm
@ electro^plankton
You would see that from Mars, kind of - if you were looking through a telescope. Look at the size of the moon, Mars is bigger than that and we still need a scope to make out any detail.Its pretty awesome to get a good look at the distance from the earth to the moon - I knew the number (approx) but it doesn’t sink in ’till you see it like that.
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kaloran
March 5th, 2008 at
12:05 am
# Ali S. Says:
March 4th, 2008 at 10:07 pm‘I had the opening scene from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey playing in my head the moment I saw this…’
I had Halo 3 adagio playing at the time. Sorta works too.
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L
March 5th, 2008 at
7:17 pm
Does the moon ever come between the Earth and Mars? Or is it on a different plane? That would make an interesting photo, too.
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lilith
March 6th, 2008 at
12:41 pm
It would make an interesting photo, then we could see the alien moonbases on the dark side of the moon, as well as the OTHER artificial moon behind the moon.
Of course, NASA would probably airbrush it out.
Silly NASA, don’t they know we can handle the truth?
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