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Article: NASA snaps shots of Earth from Mars
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- Daily Breeze
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- May 23, 2003
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NASA on Thursday released what it billed as the first portrait of
Earth as seen from Mars.
The colorized photograph shows Earth as a small blue dot orbited
by its even smaller moon. A space agency satellite in orbit around
the Red Planet took the portrait May 8.
Because Earth is closer to the sun than Mars, it exhibits phases,
as do the moon, Venus, and Mercury when viewed from our planet. In
the image, the Earth appears to be waning.
The keen-eyed can make out clouds over the central and eastern
United States and northern South America, as well as portions of
Central America and the Gulf of Mexico, in a specially processed
blowup of the image.
The Mars Global Surveyor ...