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Pictures of Earth From Mars
11223 writes "Mars Global Surveyor has snapped a picture of Earth from its Mars orbit. This picture, the first of its kind, shows Earth, the Moon, and Jupiter. Earth is visible as a half disc exposing North and South America; apparently the Moon had to be "processed" into the picture."
I can see my house from here!
-kidlinux.
That picture has been Photoshop'd. We never landed on the moon. Consume. Marry and reproduce.
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This reminds me of that Martian dude from Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show...
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But humor & politics aside, this is a great picture. You would think that just for this picture a considerable fraction of the mission's budget would have been justified.
Well since it's slashdotted let me describe it for everyone. it looks like the picture they took from the moon only
Europeons can launch their own damn surveyor!
I like how they explained how they combined and colorized the pictures. I can't help but think, however, that the temptation to "improve" it a bit more with giant Earthbound meteors would be nigh overwhelming... =)
Not quite. His mamma's shadow is the black thing behind the earth and Jupiter.
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So the moon is indeed a projection from the ground, and we blew it up during a botched nuke test?
HA! I thought so!
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Why does it look so big!? You kidding? Uh, probably because Jupiter is 11.2 times larger than Earth, and has a mass 318 times that of Earth... Any maybe due to the fact that Jupiter is more massive than all the other known planets in our solar system combined?
It was processed into the picture BECAUSE IT DOESN'T EXIST! We never landed on the moon -- THE MOON IS A HOAX!
okay, I'm done. ^_^
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Did people just outright ignore this request, or what?
"Sufferin' succotash."
All these worlds are yours to explore except Europa. Attempt no landing there.
"in the flesh"
Typical Slashdot. We get an amazing photo and already we are looking for the pr0n angle
that explains the lag, i guess ;)
I'd say over 5000 years old! This picture was one of the last ones taken by our ancestors before they boarded the last ships off of Mars towards Earth. After laying waste to all of Mars' natural resources and destroying the atmosphere, they needed a new place to call home. With the buildings and cars turning into fine iron dust under the heavy beating of the UV rays of the sun, they took one last snapshot and headed for Earth. Of course, there was a problem on the ride here and the computer lost all of its memory with only the hairdressers and accountants surviving the trip...
I think you know how the rest went.
It's good to see the picture's survived this long...it bodes well for Kodak and Fuji in our future.
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So I wonder what my horoscope would be if I lived on Mars?
-- SJS smooge at smoogespace dot com
"On a five year mission thru the dangerous Omicron nebula to figure out who the f8cking hell slashdotted Earth!"
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If you examine the image very closely, you can see their server. The explosion is visible from space.
Never approach a vast undertaking with a half-vast plan.
"apparently the Moon had to be "processed" into the pic"
..considering they have experience processing the moon into pics ever since they did it with Neil Armstrong back in 1969.
I suspect it must be done pretty well
Or am I missing something?
3rd grade science, apparently.
I'll give you a hint:
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The server is /.'ed, here is the ASCII-image of earth from Mars:
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They take one of the coolest pics ever, and they do it with a grayscale camera...
*rolls eyes*
They say the first thing to go is your penis. Well, it's either that or your brain. I forget which...
You will not get laid today.
I can clearly make out the face of Artuk, leader of our blessed Martian society, and I think the other part looks like a horsie.
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Holy Percival Lowell, Batman!
I *swear to God*, there's *canals* on Earth!
-- Terry
::morning pre-coffee grogginess, not bothering to do anything to check::
JPEG artifacts. Next.
::yaaaawn::