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To: LittleLinda; All
And now for some perspective, I bring you… One of Mankind’s longest selfie sticks

"A human observer with normal vision, if standing on Mars, could easily see Earth and the moon as two distinct, bright 'evening stars,'" NASA officials said in the image description. Aside from some processing to remove the effects of cosmic rays, the Curiosity photographs are unmodified, they added.

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity took this photo of Earth from the surface of Mars on Jan. 31, 2014, 40 minutes after local sunset, using the left-eye camera on its mast. The inset shows a zoomed-in view of the Earth and moon in the image. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/TAMU)

Curiosity Rover Sees Earth from Mars for 1st Time (Photos) By Tariq Malik February 06, 2014

https://www.space.com/24593-mars-rover-curiosity-sees-earth-photos.html

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~Easy

1,902 posted on 06/22/2021 8:01:30 PM PDT by EasySt (Say not this is the truth, but so it seems to me to be, as I see this thing I think I see #KAG)
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To: EasySt

Well now. Earth is a speck in that image and I’m considerably less than a very temporary speck on that speck. (*sigh*) I’ve never felt so insignificant.


1,935 posted on 06/22/2021 8:32:52 PM PDT by LittleLinda
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