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You are Here! Curiosity’s 1st Photo of Home Planet Earth from Mars
You are here! As an Evening Star in the Martian Sky
This evening-sky view taken by NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity shows the Earth and Earth’s moon as seen on Jan. 31, 2014, or Sol 529 shortly after sunset at the Dingo Gap. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/TAMU
18 months into her mission to discover a habitable zone on the Red Planet, NASA’s Curiosity rover has at last looked back to the inhabited zone of all humanity and snapped the 1st image of all 7 Billion Earthlings on the Home Planet.
“Look Back in Wonder… My first picture of Earth from the surface of Mars,” tweeted Curiosity.
You are there! See yourselves in the spectacular imagery – above and below. (…)
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© Ken Kremer for Universe Today, 2014. |
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Post tags: Curiosity Rover, Dingo Gap, Earth, Gale crater, habitable zone, Mars, Mars Rovers, Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Curiosity Rover, Moon, Search for Life, You are there
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Source: http://www.universetoday.com/109095/you-are-here-curiositys-1st-photo-of-home-planet-earth-from-mars/
Ahhh.. there we are.. Hmmm.. pity about the rest of the Universe.. where did that vanish to ??