This view of the twilight sky and Martian horizon taken by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover includes Earth as the brightest point of light in the night sky. Earth is a little left of center in the image, and our moon is just below Earth.
Researchers used the left eye camera of Curiosity's Mast Camera (Mastcam) to capture this scene. The image has been processed to remove effects of cosmic rays.
A human observer with normal vision, if standing on Mars, could easily see Earth and the moon as two distinct, bright "evening stars." Can you picture yourself Earth-gazing from Mars?
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/TAMU
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