MGS camera shot of Earth and Jupiter at the same time in one view...on May 2003

[draqon]

This amazing image depicts the relative distance between the moon of Earth and Earth and Jupiter and its three moons in view ( Callisto, Ganymede, and Europa ...left to right)

It is an actual image (not computer generated) that was taken by the Martian satellite! :eek:

The image is large (warned you) ... you can scroll down or see it here (http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2003/05/22/)

http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2003/05/22/earth_jupiter_100.jpg

[James R]

Nice image!

This amazing image depicts the relative distance between the moon of Earth and Earth and Jupiter and its three moons in view

A couple of caveats, though.

The image is taken from Mars, looking along the ecliptic plane of the solar system.

The relative sizes of Jupiter and Earth are not correctly depicted. In the image, Earth is a lot closer to the camera than Jupiter is. In reality, Jupiter is MUCH larger than Earth.

The image does give a reasonable sense of relative sizes of Jupiter to its moons, and Earth to its Moon, though not Earth's moon to Jupiter's moons etc.

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I should also say that if you have a telescope or binoculars you can see a similar combination of the planets Jupiter and Venus in the sky right now. Jupiter and Venus are currently close together (and also close to the Moon) as seen in Earth's night sky at the moment.

[draqon]

oh...I guess Mars was meant to be closer to Earth

[phlogistician]

oh...I guess Mars was meant to be closer to Earth


Mars is very close to Earth right now;

http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/Solar?di=1A6A2A7022BB33BECA28FCA5FF051DE0220C655A4 B1375C877F3698A986C3874089BBFDDD8EED348D2813594ED4 F7B63FCE40F22ADE6B7BACAD7CB81A0FA17

Good opportunity if you have a telescope.

[draqon]

Mars is very close to Earth right now;

Good opportunity if you have a telescope.

I used to have it...before the stupid of me, sold it to ebay and got scammed.

[kaneda]

No stars or other images? Where they electronically removed?

[draqon]

No stars or other images? Where they electronically removed?

this is a raw image, nothing changed. Thats what is amazing about it. The stars cant be seen because they are deem.

[draqon]

Anyways...the lack of stars in images from ISS and moon, results from the very short exposure rate is too short to capture any stars such as 1/100's of a second...it should be 1/2 of a second to capture the stars in images

http://popsci.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/07/27/iss.jpg