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NASA Curiosity Rover Snaps Captivating View of Earth and Venus from the Surface of Mars

posted by cmn32480 on Friday June 19 2020, @03:08AM   
from the somebody-made-a-wrong-turn-at-Albuquerque dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:

NASA Curiosity rover snaps captivating view of Earth and Venus from the surface of Mars:

NASA's Curiosity rover recently snapped a lovely panorama of its home planet and Venus from the surface of Mars.

The rover captured Earth and Venus on June 5 after sunset. "Both planets appear as mere pinpoints of light, owing to a combination of distance and dust in the air; they would normally look like very bright stars," NASA said in a release on Monday.

The image from Curiosity's Mast Camera combines two shots into one and also shows a silhouette of the top of Tower Butte, a landscape feature in the Gale Crater. If you want to test your eagle-eye vision, you can try to pick out the planets in an un-annotated version of the image.

Also at phys.org:

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• Nice clickbait bruh Nice clickbait bruh (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 19 2020, @07:01AM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 19 2020, @07:01AM (#1009919)

  Yeah, that's, like, hella "captivating".

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• Re:Nice clickbait bruh (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 19 2020, @02:27PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 19 2020, @02:27PM (#1010056)

  What kind of an idiot are you? This is exciting stuff.

  I, for one, was captivated.

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