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posted by on Wednesday January 11 2017, @12:44PM   Printer-friendly
from the enhance! dept.

From JPL comes this view of Earth from afar:

This composite image of Earth and its moon, as seen from Mars, combines the best Earth image with the best moon image from four sets of images acquired on Nov. 20, 2016, by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Each was separately processed prior to combining them so that the moon is bright enough to see. The moon is much darker than Earth and would barely be visible at the same brightness scale as Earth. The combined view retains the correct sizes and positions of the two bodies relative to each other.

HiRISE takes images in three wavelength bands: infrared, red, and blue-green. These are displayed here as red, green, and blue, respectively. This is similar to Landsat images in which vegetation appears red. The reddish feature in the middle of the Earth image is Australia. Southeast Asia appears as the reddish area (due to vegetation) near the top; Antarctica is the bright blob at bottom-left. Other bright areas are clouds.

Composite image?! It's NASA trickery!

Also at Space.com. Compare with the Pale Blue Dot and The Day the Earth Smiled.


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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 11 2017, @03:11PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 11 2017, @03:11PM (#452515)

    No no thankyou commenter, most informative. Talk about fake news, i feel so dirty forvhaving looked at the picture.

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