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Pictures of Earth From Mars

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-can-see-my-house-from-here dept.

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."

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  1. Nice pics of home by fudgefactor7 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Kinda fuzzy, but that's ok. Makes us almost look lost in the nothingness. Staggering that they could even get that pic.

  2. Better format? by zapp · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The JPEG image is ~415kb, and the site (and mirrors) are getting hit pretty hard already.

    Since the image is like 99.99999% pure black, wouldn't it have made more sense to use GIF or something? When i saved the image as a GIF it took up 8kb.

    Yeah yeah, I know... gif is copyrighted, but you get my point.

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  3. Hmm by Tyrdium · · Score: 3, Insightful

    NASA's spending millions of dollars to put these things in space, so why don't they host it on a server (which they definitely could afford) that won't get slashdotted?

  4. Re:Where did all the stars go? by klui · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is also explained in those moon hoax debunker sites. Basic photography. If you can see stars, the planets would be overexposed. If you want to see the planets, you won't see the stars.