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PIA05547: You are here: Earth as seen from Mars
This is the first image ever taken of Earth from the surface of a planet beyond the Moon. It was taken by the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit one hour before sunrise on the 63rd martian day, or sol, of its mission.
 Target Name:  Earth
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Mars Exploration Rover (MER) 
 Spacecraft:  Spirit
 Instrument:  Navigation Camera 
Panoramic Camera 
 Product Size:  1194 x 1007 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA05547.tif (711 kB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA05547.jpg (55.18 kB)  

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This is the first image ever taken of Earth from the surface of a planet beyond the Moon. It was taken by the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit one hour before sunrise on the 63rd martian day, or sol, of its mission. The image is a mosaic of images taken by the rover's navigation camera showing a broad view of the sky, and an image taken by the rover's panoramic camera of Earth. The contrast in the panoramic camera image was increased two times to make Earth easier to see.

The inset shows a combination of four panoramic camera images zoomed in on Earth. The arrow points to Earth. Earth was too faint to be detected in images taken with the panoramic camera's color filters.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL/Cornell/Texas A&M

Image Addition Date:
2004-03-11