Mars rover 'Curiosity' sends photo of the Earth

"Curiosity" has taken a photo of his home planet. 80 minutes after sunset the earth was clearly seen for the Mars Rover in the evening sky. Future Mars Visitors can you.

The Earth is from Mars considered a small dot on the horizon - after all, but the biggest in the night sky. Our moon is lit close under the earth. With the left camera on the Mars rover "Curiosity", researchers at the 529th Martian day about 80 minutes after sunset a picture.

It has been edited to cosmic radiation does not irritate the human eye. Would a human on Mars, he could easily make up the earth and the moon.

The predecessor of "Curiosity" had recently reported new findings: So there was water on Mars. In the "Endeavour" crater where "Opportunity" is staying for months, it has once given water.


Data of Mars "Mars Orbiter Reconaissance" it had already hinted that it could be iron-and aluminum-containing clay ground at the edge of the "Endeavour" crater that has a diameter of around 22 kilometers. So NASA scientists "Opportunity" with him there and let him - so precisely it with his elderly measuring instruments is possible for him - examine the stones at the edge of the crater.

The results have scientists around the planet researcher Raymond Arvidson of Washington University in St. Louis in the journal "Science" published: before and after the formation of the crater in front of around 3.7 billion years thus water flowed over these stones.

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