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NASA captures stunning pic of moon and Earth from Mars. See the pale blue crescent
Nasa's HiRISE camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured Earth and its Moon from 142 million kilometres away.
NASA further said that the phase angle of the image is 98 degrees, meaning that less than half of both Earth and the Moon are directly illuminated.
"This experiment's never been run before on another world," said Amy Williams, an astrobiologist working on the Curiosity ...
From Mars, Earth transits the Sun four times in a 284-year cycle. The transits occur in either May or November at intervals of 100.5, 79, 25.5, and 79 years. During these events, Earth and the Moon ...
The findings reveal that the Martian surface can preserve the kinds of molecules that could serve as signs of ancient life.
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