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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.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Wednesday January 11 2017, @05:28PM
Look, a picture of Earth, based on a set of pictures taken from Mars, but improved, and definitely not how you'd see it with the naked eye in size or color. We also rotated and cropped them for you.
I'd rather see the originals, which are at least pictures of the Earth taken from a Human machine orbiting another planet. That should be cool enough by itself.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 11 2017, @05:38PM
The camera from Mars isn't a normal color camera looking through a reallllly long telephoto lens. To make an image that looks somewhat like a "normal color photo" will require some processing. From tfa--
> HiRISE takes images in three wavelength bands: infrared, red, and blue-green. These are displayed here as red, green, and blue, respectively.
(Score: 2) by Osamabobama on Wednesday January 11 2017, @07:29PM
Personally, I was hoping for higher resolution. I wonder if NASA doesn't have any cameras that are closer to Earth...
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday January 11 2017, @08:02PM
Praise Gore! [wikipedia.org]
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