PetaPixel How the Mars Curiosity Rover Captured a Unique Portrait of Earth from 140 Million Miles Away


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A photo featuring a split view: on the left, a serene mountainous landscape under a gray sky with a tiny bright dot visible. On the right, a close-up zooming in on that dot reveals a crescent moon-like shape and a bright star-like object against a gray background.

The Mars Curiosity rover landed inside the Gale crater on Mars on August 6th, 2012. In the 12 years since, the rover has seen a lot of amazing things on Mars and taken thousands of photos, many unlike anything ever seen before. One such unique photo is the first-ever photo of Earth and the Martian moon Phobos as seen from Mars.

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