Earth and Moon as Seen from Mars

PIA10244: Earth and Moon as Seen from Mars


Link - http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA10244.jpg

This is an image of Earth and the moon, acquired on October 3, 2007,

by the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Link - http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA10244
Link - http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mro/gallery/press/20080303a.html

Earth, Moon, and Jupiter, as Seen From Mars[/color]

Mars Global Surveyor - Orbiter Camera
MGS MOC Release No. MOC2-368, 22 May 2003





Link - http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2003/05/22/earth_jupiter_100.jpg

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. The orbit diagram, above, shows the geometry at the time the images were obtained.

Link - http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2003/05/22/
Link - http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/r03_r09/images/R05/R0500763.html