Astronomy Picture of the Day 5-26-03

NASA ^ | 5-26-03 | Robert Nemiroff and Jerry Bonnell

[petuniasevan]

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.

2003 May 26

The Earth and Moon from Mars
Credit: MSSS, JPL, NASA

Explanation: What does Earth look like from Mars? The first image of Earth from the red planet was captured earlier this month by the camera onboard the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft currently orbiting Mars. Features visible on Earth include the Pacific Ocean, clouds, much of South America, and part of North America. Earth's Moon is visible on the upper right, with the crater Tycho brightening the lower part. Previously, Earth has been imaged from the Moon and spacecraft across the Solar System.

[petuniasevan]

Voyager 1 view (1979)

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Nozomi (Japanese mission to Mars) view:

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Earth as seen from 3.7 billion miles away by the Voyager 1 spacecraft, 6/6/1990.

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If you're interested, the Japanese NOZOMI mission to Mars is still on. They launched in 1998 but had a communications breakdown.

Nozomi was originally supposed to enter orbit around Mars on 11 October 1999. However, the spacecraft used more propellant than originally planned in an Earth swingby maneuver on 21 December 1998 . This left the spacecraft with insufficient acceleration to complete its nominal trajectory to Mars. A new trajectory was implemented whereby Nozomi will remain in heliocentric orbit for an additional four years and then reach Mars in December 2003.

[petuniasevan]

[Brad’s Gramma]

A bump for my Brad! He's going to LOVE this picture!!

Thanks for doing this, so faithfully every day.

[Soaring Feather]

Breath taking, beautiful. Thank you.

[rmt65802]

I'd like to be put on your ping list.

[petuniasevan]

Consider it done.

By the way, I will be on vacation June 2-9.

I may have a substitute APOD poster lined up, but that's still uncertain.

Thanks for visiting APOD!

[RightWhale]

I knew the MGS image would make APOD pretty soon. It's thought-provoking.

[ALS]

Simply mind-blowing. I love to fiddle with these awesome images

Here's one of the Nebula M17.

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

The Voyager 1 pic is verrrry thought-provoking! Excellent!

[firewalk]

Thanks for the ping (-:

[Joan912]

So cool!

[~EagleNebula~]

OOOOOooooOOOOOOhhhhHHHHH! AAAAaaaaaAAAAAhhhhhhHHHHH! Thank you!!! It is great to come home at 12 am, slide into my chair behind my iMac, and open up the beauties you place here!!! I look forward to coming home and checking.... I just don't always have the time to comment! Many thanks!