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."

Comments

Hey!

[kidlinux]

I can see my house from here!

Re:Hey!

[billimad]

if you look real close you can see a tiny flash of light as a web server goes up in flames.

Re:Hey!

[Elwood P Dowd]

It is, after all, from the I-can-see-my-house-from-here dept.

Re:Hey!

[dotgod]

I can see my house from here!

Hey! I didn't know Bill Gates read Slashdot!

Mission Accomplished

[Renegade Lisp]

Beautiful, absolutely beautiful. But surely, they did wait until North America was in full view for the image? If not, who would recognize the Earth, after all?

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.

my description of dead link

[Brigadier]

Well since it's slashdotted let me describe it for everyone. it looks like the picture they took from the moon only .... muuuch much much smaller

"Improving" the photos

[Soulfader]

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... =)

Re:Martian and Bugs Bunny

[cmburns69]

oooh this makes me very angry!

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In soviet russia, all your us are belong to base!
Karma: redundant

Re:Images look funny

[Sinus0idal]

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?

This picture is OLD

[Kaz Riprock]

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.

New Trek theme?

[Tablizer]

"On a five year mission thru the dangerous Omicron nebula to figure out who the f8cking hell slashdotted Earth!"

Boom

[szquirrel]

If you examine the image very closely, you can see their server. The explosion is visible from space.

Nasa is good at this

[Anonymous Coward]

"apparently the Moon had to be "processed" into the pic"

I suspect it must be done pretty well ..considering they have experience processing the moon into pics ever since they did it with Neil Armstrong back in 1969.

ASCII of earth from mars

[Andreas(R)]

The server is /.'ed, here is the ASCII-image of earth from Mars:

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