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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. fp from Mars by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    fp

  2. doh! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    slashdotted

  3. Re:Images look funny by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: -1, Redundant
    ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS, EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDINGS THERE.

    This sentence here to avoid the stupid filters. I was looking at those images and for some reason they just didn't look right to me. If you browse down the page a bit, you'll see that not only was the moon "processed" into the image. Essentially the entire "earth" and Jupiter images were "processed" as well. Why does Jupiter look so big in that picture? Did anyone catch what magnification that picture was taken at? Jupiter was behind the earth, and a long ways away, why does it still look so big? Looks like the server puked under the load, hopefully they'll come back up soon.

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  4. oh great by cr@ckwhore · · Score: 1, Redundant

    awesome! We slashdotted mars

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  5. Wow! UPI Really has the Crap Slinger on High Today by GMontag · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Well, a slightly different version of this story was submitted on Thursday May 22, @03:56PM . Enjoy!

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