Earth and Jupiter, as seen from Mars

Drewcifer · Post by **Drewcifer** » 2003-05-24 04:05am

http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2003/05/22/

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 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.

Post by **Gandalf** » 2003-05-24 04:20am

Nice, a little disapointing though. I expected something bigger.

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2003-05-24 04:30am

Very, very cool. Inspirational, even.

Gil Hamilton · Post by **Gil Hamilton** » 2003-05-24 12:10pm

That is incredibly cool.

Dooey Jo · Post by **Dooey Jo** » 2003-05-24 03:50pm

That's just very cool! I saw it on the television a few days ago.

I'm sure some conspiracy nut-cases are going to find those pictures soon enough and start wondering where all the stars are, thus proving the images are fake and we never sent any satellites to Mars.

Hey that gave me an idea...