Rare photos of the Earth and Moon taken from Mars

NASA's spacecraft offers stunning views of the Earth and the Moon from a distance of 205 million km on Mars.

The Mars Orbital Survey (MRO) of the US Aerospace Agency (NASA) uses a high-resolution camera for scientific experiments (HiRISE) to capture remote images of Earth and Moon. November 20, 2016, according to Space. At the time of shooting, Mars and Earth were about 205 million kilometers apart, NASA said.

The Earth and Moon images combine from two single images taken on November 20, 2016 by HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Orbital Survey Ship.(Photo: NASA / JPL-Caltech / University of Arizona).

The newly stacked image draws from two single exposure images taken by HiRISE to calibrate the lens, ensuring the device can record small details about a meter in diameter on the Martian surface from the fund. religion.

"The image shows the exact location and size of the Earth and the Moon compared to each other. The distance between the Earth and the Moon is about 30 times greater than the Earth's diameter. But the distance of the Moon to Earth in This figure is closer to reality because this observation was planned in advance so that the Moon is located directly behind the Earth when viewed from Mars, " NASA said.

The new image is detailed enough to show the size of the continents on Earth, the brown part in the middle of the Earth in the picture is Australia.

The $ 720 million MRO mission was launched into space in August 2005 and flew into Mars's orbit from March 2006. For more than a decade, explorers have been studying Mars geology, linking information to Mars surface probes such as Curiosity robots, helping researchers evaluate potential landing sites. for other missions in the future. MRO flies in a circular orbit about 250 - 316km from Mars's surface.