Amazing Photo of the Earth and Jupiter taken from Mars in the same frame

[Ichingcarpenter]

What does Earth look like when viewed from Mars? At 13:00 GMT on 8 May 2003, the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) had an opportunity to find out. In addition, a fortuitous alignment of Earth and Jupiter---the first planetary conjunction viewed from another planet---permitted the MOC to acquire an image of both of these bodies and their larger satellites. At the time, Mars and the orbiting camera were 139 million kilometers (86 million miles) from Earth and almost 1 billion kilometers (nearly 600 million miles) from Jupiter. The orbit diagram, above, shows the geometry at the time the images were obtained.
















This doesn't do it justice for the big picture go here:

http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2003/05/22/

[Nuclear Unicorn]

1. Awesome find

Thanks for sharing.

[autorank]

2. The real worlds! k*r

Thanks!

[closeupready]

3. That really is amazing.

When you try to fathom the distances, the size of the Earth, and Jupiter, and look at the photos, you feel so small. :D

[snagglepuss]

4. Amazing. Thanks for posting. nt

[Canuckistanian]

5. Amazing

If you lived on Mars, Earth would be another "evening star", just like Venus and Mercury are to us.

I wonder if the blue color would stand out?

[Soylent Brice]

6. K&R

amazing find!

thank you for posting!

[Bigmack]

7. Wow! Incredible!

And MANY thanks for posting this - Ms Bigmack

[Ptah]

8. Great photos. Thanks for the link, too.

A little off topic, but does any know where I can find a picture of the solar system like this:



I'd like to see the positions of the planets for different months, years, etc.

Thanks in advance.

[Odin2005]

9. WOW!!!

:wow: