The Earth and moon star in this first photo from Wall-E, one of NASA's two Mars Cube One cubesats, that launched with the agency's InSight Mars lander on May 5, 2018. This view of Earth and the moon was taken May 9. [620,000 miles](NASA/JPL-Caltech)
In 1990, the Voyager 1 space probe took a picture of the earth, named as the Pale Blue Dot from 3.7 billion miles away.
1 posted on
05/20/2018 7:13:18 PM PDT by
ETL
To: ETL
2 posted on
05/20/2018 7:25:49 PM PDT by
Mr. Blond
To: ETL
how large are these two satellites?
3 posted on
05/20/2018 7:30:50 PM PDT by
txnativegop
(The political left, Mankinds intellectual hemlock)
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5 posted on
05/20/2018 7:33:16 PM PDT by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: ETL
I was looking at that photo thinking “well at least the light from the shade, will be dimming as the telescope flies further away from the sun”.
Until it dawned on my, it will actually be getting brighter, then.
I guess the telescope will be somewhat limited on it’s view, for the most light-sensitive shots, to only 180% degree or just shy of that.
6 posted on
05/20/2018 7:35:53 PM PDT by
cba123
( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
To: ETL
OK, so the earth is not round.
7 posted on
05/20/2018 7:43:04 PM PDT by
TChad
(Leftthink: Reality is sadly out of touch with the higher truth.)
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To: ETL
They must have equipped the satellite with an iPhone X ...
12 posted on
05/20/2018 7:59:35 PM PDT by
SecondAmendment
(Restoring our Republic at 9.8357x10^8 FPS)
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Here is a recently re-processed image of Pluto from New Horizons.
To: ETL
?Trolling for Borg?
16 posted on
05/21/2018 4:58:11 AM PDT by
mabarker1
(congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!!)
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19 posted on
05/21/2018 7:17:46 AM PDT by
Diana in Wisconsin
(I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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