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NASA has just published a remarkable picture of the Earth and the Moon from the surface of Mars. She made it on January 31 camera Mastcam rover Curiosity, the Mars 529 times of its work on the Red Planet. The picture was taken 80 minutes after sunset, when Curiosity was about 160 million kilometers from Earth. Astronomers say that for a man standing on the surface of the Earth and the Moon would be clearly visible.

Earth and Moon from Mars

/ NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS / TAMU /

Curiosity may ‘feel’ slightly homesick. The last time the rover was on Earth Nov 26, 2011, before the start of the Cape Canaveral, Florida. Eight and a half months later, after traveling more than 560 million kilometers, jeep, actually cosmic laboratory called Curiosity, safely landed on the Red Planet. Since that time, the camera probe performed thousands of pictures, but only now caught the eye Earth.

This is not the first picture of the Earth from the surface of Mars at all. In 2004, the Spirit rover has photographed the planet. Then for the first time created an image of the Earth is made of the surface of another celestial body, than the moon.

The land was also photographed by the probe with even greater distances. Cassini made a number of pictures of the Earth from orbit Saturn, Messenger of Mercury’s orbit. Voyager 1 probe in 1990 looked at the Earth from outside the orbit of Pluto, the record distance of 6.4 billion kilometers.

Enlarged Earth and the Moon

/ NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS / TAMU /

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