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n2doc

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Thu Feb 6, 2014, 06:38 PM Feb 2014

The Evening Star (big image)

February 06, 2014

The rover's view of its original home planet even includes our moon, just below Earth.

The images, taken about 80 minutes after sunset during the rover's 529th Martian day (Jan. 31, 2014) are available at http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA17936 for a broad scene of the evening sky, and at http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA17935 for a zoomed-in view of Earth and the moon.

NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Project is using Curiosity to assess ancient habitable environments and major changes in Martian environmental conditions. JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, built the rover and manages the project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington.
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2014-039

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The Evening Star (big image) (Original Post) n2doc Feb 2014 OP
Talk about giving us a little perspective! Wow. n/t CaliforniaPeggy Feb 2014 #1
NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Project is using Curiosity to assess ancient habitable environments.. DreamGypsy Feb 2014 #2
... Warren DeMontague Feb 2014 #3
Awesome. Warren DeMontague Feb 2014 #4
Wow! Earth is so small. Very humbling isn't it? Auntie Bush Feb 2014 #5

DreamGypsy

(2,252 posts)
2. NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Project is using Curiosity to assess ancient habitable environments..
Thu Feb 6, 2014, 06:47 PM
Feb 2014

...and determines that Earth is no longer habitable.

Auntie Bush

(17,528 posts)
5. Wow! Earth is so small. Very humbling isn't it?
Thu Feb 6, 2014, 07:59 PM
Feb 2014

Hard to think it takes so long to drive across Texas...which I never did again.

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