Author Topic: What does Earth look like when viewed from Mars? (Read 702 times)

« **on:** May 23, 2003, 05:04:13 AM »

At 13:00 GMT on 8 May 2003, the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) had an opportunity to find out. In addition, a fortuitous alignment of Earth and Jupiter---the first planetary conjunction viewed from another planet---permitted the MOC to acquire an image of both of these bodies and their larger satellites. At the time, Mars and the orbiting camera were 139 million kilometers (86 million miles) from Earth and almost 1 billion kilometers (nearly 600 million miles) from Jupiter. The orbit diagram, above, shows the geometry at the time the images were obtained.

The pictures, diagrams and lot of info here

PD: i enjoy astronomy, only wanted to share this cool stuff with you.

Titan · « **Reply #1 on:** May 23, 2003, 12:05:50 PM »

Thanks Adan. I enjoy astronomy too. It really makes you wonder.

« **Reply #2 on:** May 23, 2003, 01:47:09 PM »

I like how you can see Jupiter really easily from Mars.

« **Reply #3 on:** May 23, 2003, 01:49:17 PM »

If you check the diagram, you can figure out how big is jupiter compared to earth.

« **Reply #4 on:** May 23, 2003, 03:20:28 PM »

Astronomy = the science of making us look insignificant

I love stargazing, climbing up on my roof with some good tunes, and just looking at them.

Cerberus · « **Reply #5 on:** May 24, 2003, 06:18:30 AM »

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Originally posted by The Stapler
I like how you can see Jupiter really easily from Mars.

I like the way the light casts a crescent shape on the earth, yet lights jupiter up all over, as if they are getting their light source from to different directions.

Or are the two super imposed on top of each other from 2 different pics?

Cerberus · « **Reply #6 on:** May 24, 2003, 06:23:55 AM »

DOH!! forget that, I didn\'t look at the diagram

/me thinks of changing his name to retardicus maximus

« **Reply #7 on:** May 24, 2003, 08:30:30 AM »

It\'s just 2 dots.

« **Reply #8 on:** May 24, 2003, 06:59:09 PM »

I like how Uranus looks from where I\'m sitting.

Cerberus · « **Reply #9 on:** May 25, 2003, 11:35:34 AM »

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Originally posted by SwifDi
I like how Uranus looks from where I\'m sitting.

Yeah, the sun catches it beautifully I think.

« **Reply #10 on:** May 27, 2003, 05:25:11 PM »

There is more from where that came from

Hello

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