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What Does Earth And Juipter Look Like When Viewed From Mars? [SWEET PIC]

msss.com — What does Earth look like when viewed from Mars? 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 .

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  • pygar, on 10/11/2007, -14/+153Its 2 dots on a black square!
  • digggggggggg, on 10/11/2007, -4/+110SERVER IS TOO SLOW! ASCII APPROXIMATION FOLLOWS:


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  • tehgoatman, on 10/11/2007, -10/+100Do*
  • corporalclegg24, on 10/11/2007, -0/+41http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0504/bigorion_wang_big.jpg
  • docbob84, on 10/11/2007, -1/+41Click on the picture and zoom in on it. You can sea Earth and the Moon, and Jupiter's moons too. Callisto and Ganymede are on the left, Europa is on the right, and Io must be behind or in front of Jupiter. Gives you an idea of the scale of the Jovian system compared to Earth and the Moon.
  • Flashman, on 10/11/2007, -3/+37Jupiter.
  • fantasticFlan, on 10/11/2007, -1/+33Dude, that's a rectangle.
  • amunimanghi, on 10/11/2007, -11/+40I was expecting more....Well, I was just expecting more.
  • tehpwnrate, on 10/11/2007, -2/+28Wang big? Are you kidding me?
  • breatht, on 10/11/2007, -0/+19We are all... literally... nothing but a speck.
  • Rikushix, on 10/11/2007, -3/+19That was a lot less glamorous than i expected it to be.

    Edit: scratch that. zooming in is actually sorta cool.
  • shaitanx, on 10/11/2007, -1/+15I've always wanted to know what Juipter looked like from Mars.
  • goodoldharris, on 10/11/2007, -2/+15And did you get a "real" job with your sub-junior-high-school level grammar?
  • Disjunto, on 10/11/2007, -1/+13and theres more than 2 dots :P learn to click
  • artofwar420, on 10/11/2007, -1/+13This has absolutely no relation to the article but it is so awesome I dugg you up.
  • inactive, on 10/11/2007, -5/+16On the blue dot, people care whether or not you eat pork and who you have sex puts things in perspective. doesn't it?
  • smurf22, on 10/11/2007, -1/+12man dont post spoilers!

    /sarcasm
  • thirdeyeopen, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10Wow, this really puts into perspective how ***** HUGE jupiter is compared to earth.

    Pale Blue Dot indeed.
  • IllBeBack, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11You think you need to be an English major just to be able to tell the difference between "do" and "does"? Uhhh, I does not think so.
  • GiggleStick, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8Some of you complaining about it being only 2 dots, should click on the damn image. You see that blue box around the image, that means it's one of them thar hyperlink thingies. Then you get the full res image, which is kinda cool. You can see the bands of Jupiter and some of its moons and barely make out the Americas on Earth. Earth is much closer than Jupiter, by the way, so it looks much bigger than it normally would next to Jupiter. It's been enhanced from the original greyscale, also.
  • IllBeBack, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7Same reason there are no stars in the background of the moon landing photos. Contrast.
  • soopertoll, on 10/11/2007, -3/+9I was just about to contact NASA that i've found some more planets in our galaxy...

    ...then i realized it was just me sneezing on my screen.
  • cr1t, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Very nice if you click on the top picture you can view the large image and you can see some nice detail. To think our home is that little blue marble.
  • gijoel, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6No one would have believed that in the early years of the twenty first century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than any martian.
  • cavtb, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5can you imagine living on mars, and seeing Earth that far away? it make me homesick just imagining it.
  • otep, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5

    Once I zoomed in it was actually really cool. Perspective, man.

  • ciphex, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5to see earth in a phase from that far away... very cool
  • sychodelix, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Jupiter is nowhere NEAR that big from earth. Do you even look at the sky?
  • jmkiii, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5Must resist... ***** tendencies...
    ARRRG!
  • McFrosty, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Cause its a hoax obviously.

    There is no Earth and Jupiter. It was all filmed in New Zealand.
  • davideparker, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5Is our children lerning?
  • griz, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Wow, and to think, in that tiny speck there are 6 billion people hell bent on destroying themselves.
  • derkaas, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Buy a telescope.
  • heyitsgarrett, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4But what does MINE say?
  • Uranium118, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2No, it's the opposite. A square is a type of rectangle.
  • Sepeteus, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Answer: Small.
  • Dotmeister, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2And because it is JUPITER not JUIPTER...I guess everyone agrees that FutureTelpsum should be fired from is Grammar Nazi job right?
  • Daniel001, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Dugg down because the error has already been pointed out in the first post in this thread.
  • bambinoTostare, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2True - i had no idea jupiter's moons were so far out. I guess we tend to see pics of them in front of Jupiter (cos that's more dramatic or interesting) which makes them look close. Cool.
  • PunkRampant, on 10/11/2007, -4/+6I can see my house from here!
  • tcquad, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Click to see the larger size. The thumbnail doesn't do it justice.
  • griz, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Or, look east around 9PM about 15 degrees about the horizon.
  • zonk3r, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1This reminds me of a smelly hippy song...

    ...and Jupiter aligned with Mars. Then peace will guide the planet, And love will steer the stars. This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius! Age of Aquarius!
  • eggo, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Glad you said that, I was disappointed, but you made me take a second look. Cool stuff.
  • zonk3r, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1This picture reminds me a smelly hippy song...

    ...and Jupiter aligned with Mars. Then peace will guide the planet, And love will steer the stars. This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius! Age of Aquarius!
  • effedup, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1not so sweet.
  • Urusai, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I can't even see Earth on the unprocessed image. Shenanigans!
  • mwmccullough, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Don't you mean "Shweet"!
  • SinzenStudios, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1If we all feel so small all of a sudden then imagine all of it from an ants perspective.
  • emehrkay, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I wonder how many hours are in a mars day or jupiter day. and how many of those days, and earth days, make a year on those planets

    *google*

    Mars orbits the sun in 686.98 earth days
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