Check out this image of Earth as seen from Mars

Though it's admittedly difficult to see, NASA's Curiosity rover has captured the first images of Earth from the surface of Mars (with the moon included as a bonus). From Mars' perspective, Earth is but a somewhat bright light in the night sky.

Check out this image of Earth as seen from Mars They even turned the image into a video of sorts, which can be found here.

Taken 40 minutes after sunset using the left-eye camera on the rover’s mast, the images reportedly came after Curiosity first captured the Martian sunset some 80 minutes earlier.

“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. At the time of the photograph, the two plan...

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