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Mars Orbiter Photographs another Mars Orbiter

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the right-hand-meets-left dept.

rde writes "We're all familiar with blurry photographs of UFOs, but NASA have gone one better; the Mars Global Surveyor has photographed fellow satellite Mars Odyssey as it whizzed past. This is the first instance of one extraterrestrial satellite photographing another."

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  1. Voyager by apache+guevara · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is infact tougher than it seems. Both satellites are on a polar orbit and at different speeds. And the camera on the MGS rotates as it takes pictures over this. Pretty awesome for the sheer mathematical probabilites involved

    For sheer probabilites, imagine the Voyager out there in the beyond. It would be nothing short of a miracle to be spotted by a satellite from another planet.

    Unless of course it bumps into the dear old gluttonous friend of ours from Trall!!