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Earth and Moon as Seen from Mars

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  • akash8m, on 03/05/2008, -29/+40Such a beautiful planet, many are trashing it.
    • matt510, on 03/05/2008, -17/+23There are way too many negative people on Digg.
      • sourceholder, on 03/05/2008, -0/+2Agreed. That's why I gave you a thumbs-down.
    • quomen, on 03/05/2008, -25/+11Your mom is ugly, and i'm still trashing her.
      • Feazey, on 03/05/2008, -1/+0Congratulations Akash8m's mother! Ugly and getting laid? Quomen, stick to the hotties :(
    • xTRUMANx, on 03/05/2008, -7/+2I hear in that blue planet, they think we're little green men. Little do that know that we will soon arrive and conquer their planet.
      • SpaceMonkeyZero, on 03/05/2008, -1/+7Watch out for the bacteria... and Slim Whitman...
        • SpaceMonkeyZero, on 03/05/2008, -0/+6Dugg down for a War of the Worlds and Mars Attacks reference?
      • smackafiyah, on 03/05/2008, -4/+1I, for one, welcome our blah blah...
    • xhazerdusx, on 03/05/2008, -4/+1/agree
    • 0ddity, on 03/05/2008, -4/+3Including us... the power required to run all the computers... not to mention the toxic electronic waste that has been building up since CRTs were invented.
    • eth3l, on 03/05/2008, -4/+4Well you could start by not using Digg and all the electricity to power your toys. Then start critiquing.
    • MrCrispyChicken, on 03/05/2008, -2/+5Global warming's a myth anyway......
      • Feazey, on 03/05/2008, -1/+1Not a myth but not man-made. Good to see someone positive on digg. Bravo.
  • TnTBass, on 03/05/2008, -26/+7Not entirely correct. The Earth and Moon would look much, much smaller than that if seen from Mars. This pic was actually taken on route to Mars.
    Cool pic anyways.
    • matt510, on 03/05/2008, -3/+28No, the HiRISE is orbiting Mars. It just has a high resolution camera that has been magnified many times. The actual size of the Earth from Mars would look pretty much like Mars does from Earth.
      • TnTBass, on 03/05/2008, -12/+2Thanks for pointing out my inaccuracy, however, I can still argue that I'm correct. Since magnification is at play, it basically acts as if the picture was taken by a camera much closer to the subject matter than it actually was.
        Yeah, I'm grasping at straws... :P
        • boredsam, on 03/05/2008, -0/+8http://xkcd.com/386/
          • TnTBass, on 03/05/2008, -3/+1My buddy messaged me the other day... said he had to go pick up his gf, but someone on the internet was wrong.

            I told him he could either live with it and get laid, or prove someone wrong. I'm pretty sure we all know what he did... he proved that person wrong.

            So I went and took out his gf.
  • tmlee, on 03/05/2008, -8/+5TnTBass
    According to the webpage, the pic was taken by the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter while it was orbiting Mars.
    • Zaneris, on 03/05/2008, -0/+4What other planet would it be orbiting?
  • bmdubya, on 03/05/2008, -15/+72Man, just looking at that picture makes me so mad that we spend so much money on worthless ***** like war and ***** pop-culture *****. If we put more money into science and space exploration, we could really evolve our species. But we will never change, because the smart ones are never in power, only the rich ones.
    • DiggLive, on 03/05/2008, -5/+17Use your intelligence to make more money. Then you'll be able to have all the power you want.
    • foxhaze, on 03/05/2008, -23/+4lol @ whiny rant by angsty teenager.

      Shut the hell up and suck big government's *****.
    • CrazedLeper, on 03/05/2008, -13/+3I got news for you, buddy, war is the fruit of the THEORY of evolution. You're not going anywhere as long as your fellow "natural selectors" want to kill everything in sight to prove their imaginary superiority. Also, there is nothing out there but radiation, rocks and disappointment. You are seriously detached from reality; there will be grave consequences for this.
    • xhazerdusx, on 03/05/2008, -2/+4Agreed.
    • magoblygoo, on 03/05/2008, -1/+20i completely agree. I know it sounds corny but I almost wish that we could do away with money. If we all tried to work towards bettering ourselves as a species and not a mindless mob that wants to get rich we would be years ahead of where we are now.
      • smackafiyah, on 03/05/2008, -0/+4And sadly this will never happen.....unless genies exist then I'm all for it
      • Logicexe, on 03/05/2008, -0/+4You've been watching too much Star Trek, but it's ok, so have I.
      • TurboBeard, on 03/05/2008, -1/+4Communist! ;)
      • rodbotic, on 03/06/2008, -0/+1without money there would be no demand for many things.
        almost no one would strive to do menial things like mining or manufacturing.
        there needs to be a reward based system to encourage people to do the things no one wants to do.
    • ChronicColonic, on 03/05/2008, -4/+3LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!!!
    • Feazey, on 03/05/2008, -0/+7Dugg for being a hugely inspirational comment and sharing some positive views with the world. We need more people like you.
    • stabbingkittens, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1I wish we could do away with money. It makes us turn on each other, but the -million dollar question- is how can you make someone give up money when they have devoted their life to success at the expense of pleasure? Communism is a beautiful ideology, but it was attempted too early and has tarnished its name. It requires a power to take hold, much like a dictator, and then give it all up, which of course never happened because the rest of the world still ran on money. Capitalism will see us and our kids' kids' kids ... to our graves, but humanity will eventually reject it. Thoughts?
  • fr0ng, on 03/05/2008, -15/+8Apparently, it's also too far away from the repost that made the front page earlier today.
  • haidalangara, on 03/05/2008, -11/+2how the ***** did we make it to the moon?
    • echo2501, on 03/05/2008, -0/+8Physics... a building full of physics.
    • CrazedLeper, on 03/05/2008, -8/+1Some say we didn't. I think there's something to that theory since NO ONE from ANY COUNTRY as been there since. What happened to the Soviet's lunar program? Should we just forget like we're conditioned to forget about so many things?
      • Logicexe, on 03/05/2008, -0/+3There's no reason to go to the moon anymore until we can figure out a way of setting up a base. What are we supposed to do? Drive around some more? Play another round of golf? Any science that could be done can be done far more cheaply and safely with unmanned probes. Why spend billions and billions of dollars and put lives at risk to do something that's already been done and serves no purpose?
      • matt510, on 03/05/2008, -0/+3Moon landing conspiracy theory = Fail.
    • SpaceMonkeyZero, on 03/05/2008, -1/+5This may help: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120570/

      This won't help: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051638/
      • haidalangara, on 03/05/2008, -5/+1shut the ***** up. do you know what sarcasm is? i was just saying how incredible it is that we made it that far. look at that distance!
        • SpaceMonkeyZero, on 03/05/2008, -0/+3You have some serious psychological issues, don't you?
  • SubaruPowah, on 03/05/2008, -17/+10This topic is currently over 1300 diggs in popular. Buried for being a Duplicate.
    • matt510, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1Yes, it is a duplicate, but at least it links to the source and not a site whose servers kept crashing.
  • SpickSlayer, on 03/05/2008, -19/+1OMGOMGOMOMGOMOGOMG that picture is AMAZING. Not really, cockfaces, it's photoshopped. :|
  • talonstriker, on 03/05/2008, -7/+17Just curious, where aren't any stars visible in the picture?
    • b00le, on 03/05/2008, -2/+13Because the exposure required for the - very bright - Earth and Moon would be too low to show the - very dim - stars. (The same reason the pictures from the surface of the moon - and most night shots on Earth - show no stars)
    • knuckles, on 03/05/2008, -2/+7Grab your camera tonight, go out to the country and look up, your eyes will see all the wonderful stars. Now point the camera at the stars and grab a picture. Depending on the camera (film, shutter speed, digital etc) you'll either see some stars or none when you make prints. It's all about "exposure" time.
      • SpaceMonkeyZero, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1As a kid I loved taking long exposure pictures of the nighttime sky. Until I got the pictures processed and a damn plane crossed the path messing up the picture! Damn you ALB.
    • Zaneris, on 03/05/2008, -1/+7Same reason you can't see any stars during the day, and that you barely can with too much light pollution. The light reflected off of the Earth and Moon in this photo from the Sun is magnitudes brighter than the stars in the background. With a longer exposure to show the stars, the Earth and Moon would simply be bright white blobs.
    • RNEMESiS42, on 03/05/2008, -3/+9Because it was filmed in a sound stage. OMG HOAX!!
    • MegaSmack, on 03/05/2008, -0/+4"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space."
      -Douglas Adams
    • Logicexe, on 03/05/2008, -1/+3Why were people digging him down? He's not trying to insinuate that this picture was faked or anything, he's just asking a question. That should be encouraged.
  • hallofween, on 03/05/2008, -1/+4
    • rodbotic, on 03/06/2008, -1/+1what makes you think Dig can crash NASA servers??
  • Mr.Gone, on 03/05/2008, -2/+1Wow, it really makes you realize how old everything is huh?
  • fadetoone, on 03/05/2008, -3/+9It was better when it was popular yesterday. And in that one they even bothered to fill in the description field!

    Dupe.
    • physco827, on 03/05/2008, -1/+3just thinking the same thing.
    • matt510, on 03/05/2008, -1/+1Agreed, but at least this one links to the source at NASA.
  • chall85, on 03/05/2008, -3/+6buried duplicate
  • CrazedLeper, on 03/05/2008, -8/+1Why are there *no* stars in this pic? At this distance, *something* should show up.
    • Zaneris, on 03/05/2008, -0/+4Read responses to similar comment above.
    • Spartandog, on 03/05/2008, -0/+6Ever notice how the astronauts all have dark visors on their helmets? That's because looking at the earth or moon in space, reflecting sunlight without atmosphere, is so bright it would damage their eyes. Point a camera at the earth or any other planetary body and if you want to get nice color pics, you'd have to adjust for the brightness, therefore dimming everything else, including stars.
  • Logicexe, on 03/05/2008, -1/+6"Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us."

    H.G. Wells, War of the Worlds
  • seantubridy, on 03/05/2008, -1/+6God, we're so alone.
  • mgyqmb, on 03/05/2008, -1/+1I was looking for this picture this morning for class. Thanks Digg.
  • slowbox, on 03/05/2008, -1/+8Dont worry about this whole trashing the environment thing... once the tectonic plates do their thing everything will get sucked back into the molten center of our planet where the bumble bees will eat all the landfills and the mole people will rise up again.
  • tehrich, on 03/05/2008, -5/+2Why are people digging this and burying the people who are commenting that this is a repost?
    And I swear some of these comments are the same as the ones on every other space picture that's posted from Nasa. I think I've seen that star question and something along the lines of "we're so alone" on every one of them.
    • stabbingkittens, on 03/05/2008, -1/+2-1, I think I've seen your post on a previous Digg article.
  • jacekpoplawski, on 03/05/2008, -1/+3Wow, Moon is quite close to Earth.
    • Zaneris, on 03/05/2008, -0/+4You really have no sense of depth in this picture, but I can tell you that the Moon is in its point of orbit from the perspective of the camera, that it has just passed in front of the Earth and will make its way out to about 6-7x this distance.

      You can just eyeball it, the distance from the earth to the moon is about 30 earth diameters and in this photo it appears to be 4-5 earth diameters away, putting the Moon closer or further from Mars than Earth.
    • Zippo, on 03/05/2008, -0/+2I would have expected it to be much closer, actually. Learn something new everyday.
    • TurboBeard, on 03/05/2008, -2/+4It's almost like they're gay for each other...
      • stabbingkittens, on 03/05/2008, -0/+2I love diggrandomness, +1 everytime
  • petecampbell, on 03/05/2008, -0/+4Have I gone back to Yesterday?
  • BJS007, on 03/05/2008, -3/+1This inspires me to take a photo from the back of me balls.
  • Webbster, on 03/05/2008, -1/+1"When you are the moon...."
  • Wandel, on 03/05/2008, -0/+5The Earth looks a lot more interesting from Mars than Mars looks from the Earth.
  • zulhafizbux, on 03/05/2008, -1/+1nice......
  • ladbroke, on 03/05/2008, -1/+4That is a sweet Earth, you say?
  • slapded, on 03/05/2008, -1/+2help im living in yesterday!
  • Mootabolife, on 03/05/2008, -1/+1how exaclty do you justify compressing 88miles into one pixel.
  • Ranvier, on 03/05/2008, -2/+1That was rather underwhelming...
  • Lanefair, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1Am i right in thinking that judging by the dark sides of the earth and the moon, that the earth is closest to the camera here, and as a result the point to point distance between the two in the pic is less than the actual distance between the two?
  • HunterBriley, on 03/05/2008, -2/+1This picture really blows my mind for some reason
  • paola11, on 03/05/2008, -1/+1cool
  • playscape, on 03/05/2008, -1/+3it sure is black out there.
  • hermit83, on 03/05/2008, -1/+1very beautiful
  • stabbingkittens, on 03/05/2008, -1/+2"This color image required a fair amount of processing to make a nice-looking release."
    Photoshopped!
  • sgtpeprz, on 03/06/2008, -1/+0No way is this picture from Mars orit. Mars is much further from earth then shon in this picture. Earth would be the size of a star just like Mars looks like a star from Earth.
    • Laserena, on 03/07/2008, -0/+0With the naked eye, Earth would appear as a bright star from Mars. But this camera riding on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is essentially a telescope. It's the largest camera ever flown in space and it can show small surface details on Mar from orbit. In fact, when it took a picture of the upcoming Mars Phoenix lander's landing spot, scientists realized they were headed for a boulder field and had to change landing locations! Other orbiters at Mars couldn't see the boulders. [Phoenix will land in a new location on May 25]

  • MSNAstrology, on 04/26/2008, -0/+0Breathtaking! I'm saving this picture. The moon is reeeaaalllllyyy important and its awesome to see it like this. Great stuff!

    Adam

    PS. Go Learn more about the moon at my brand new Moon Signs Astrology blog called Moon Signs Network.
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