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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!
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Well since it's slashdotted let me describe it for everyone. it looks like the picture they took from the moon only
Whoa, I was gonna try and mirror these images ... but to no avail! The webserver stopped dead during the subscriber preview time. Oh well, here's a BitTorrent link for everything I was able to get before the site went down:
BitTorrent images mirror link
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Space.com has the pictures, and is not (yet) slashdotted.
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Or maybe this is "another mirror" by the time I finish posting this. The site is getting pounded hard. This is just the JPEG that was linked to, not the entire site.
/. doesn't have any consideration for other sites when they post links.
429319 byte JPEG. It's on a beefy connection, have a blast.
It's really too bad
mirror here.
If you can, mirror it somewhere else, too.
I downloaded the unprocessed images of Earth. The only difference is Earth is colorized, and the moon brightness is enhanced.
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It can be found here
Pretty kewl to enter the date/time May 8, 9:00Est, navigate to mars and see the rendered view for yourself. Celstia lets you do this, it's a free solar system simulator. Really high-quality too IMHO. It gets the image pretty close. Make Jupiters moons a little brighter, and the earth is too clear, but it's still an educational exersize... but then again what isn't.
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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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Why does Jupiter look so big in that picture?
From one of the astronomy programs I have, I was able to get this data for 08-May-2003:
Earth-Mars range: 1.398e8 km
Jupiter-Mars range: 9.438e8 km
Earth radius: 6378.12 km
Jupiter radius: 71492.35 km
So using
size = atan( radius / range )
we obtain apparent sizes from Mars:
Jupiter: 0.0043 deg
Earth: 0.0026 deg
So Jupiter should be almost twice as big, even though it's almost 7 times farther away. One can probably also figure out the magnification based on the image.
Travis
NASA has been doing cool pictures from far away for a while. Two that are worth looking at:
:) This is a Voyager 1 picture taken in 1980, I think.
Solar System Family Portrait
This one is nice, but earth is really only about 4 pixels, so you can't see all that much detail.
Saturn in shadow
This is a nice shot of Saturn by the Galileo probe, taken with about half the planet in shadown. Read the write-up there, it's kind of cool.
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The server is /.'ed, here is the ASCII-image of earth from Mars:
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