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on Friday June 19 2020, @03:08AM
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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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(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 19 2020, @05:18AM
Why the fuck has The Mighty Buzzard not been fired from the staff of this shithole? He's a racist piece of shit who repeatedly abuses his admin access. For some reason martyb and NCommander seem okay with this. Why the fuck hasn't the asshole been fired yet?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 19 2020, @07:01AM (1 child)
Yeah, that's, like, hella "captivating".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 19 2020, @02:27PM
What kind of an idiot are you? This is exciting stuff.
I, for one, was captivated.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Friday June 19 2020, @12:55PM
Yes, there they are. Barely visible, but not hard do distinguish from anything else in the image, there being nothing else visible except for the dust on my screen. Venus was a bit hard to see until I cleaned the screen. Dust is sticky.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Friday June 19 2020, @03:08PM
While you can pick them out, I wouldn't exactly call it captivating, as it's more of a picture of a dusty sky with a couple pin pricks. Which really don't look like much in the picture. They're kind of lost in the general haze.
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