Curiosity Rover Spots Earth and Venus

[Waspie_Dwarf]

While Stargazing on Mars, NASA's Curiosity Rover Spots Earth and Venus

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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover occasionally stops to stargaze. Recently, it captured a shot of Earth and Venus in the Red Planet's night sky.

Curiosity aimed its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, at the heavens about 75 minutes after sunset on June 5, 2020, the 2,784th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. A two-image twilight panorama reveals Earth in one frame and Venus in the other. Both planets appear as mere pinpoints of light, owing to a combination of distance and dust in the air; they would normally look like very bright stars.

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[+OverSword]

That is cool.

[stevewinn]

Elon musk gets his way and humans will soon be looking back at the earth from surface of Mars.