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September 03, 2003
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Looking back
Dale Amon (Belfast, Northern Ireland)  Aerospace
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Back in May of this year, the Mars Global Surveyer was commanded to turn its' camera outwards at the solar system. These marvelous images show us the home system as not-so-far-future Martian colonists will see it.

I was particularly captivated by this view of North and South America as it would appear to an amateur astronomer.



Photo: NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems

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Hey! You can see my house from up here!


Posted by S. Weasel at September 3, 2003 11:44 AM

This gets to me everytime I see it.
Moon Landscape by Petr Ginz His talent and imagination were boundless and that his picture got to go into space with Illan Ramon was a wonderful tribute.


Posted by mark holland at September 3, 2003 01:27 PM

As Gary Larson wrote: ''If you squint your eyes just right you can see the Zork in the Earth!''.


SPOILER

The cartoon showed America-shaped indigenous Moon dwellers gazing up at the Earth. As the astronomically literate will have spotted, it is a two level joke at the expense of both Human anthropocenticity and American parochialism (the Earth does not present only a single face to the Moon in the way that the Moon does to the Earth).


Posted by Alan Peakall at September 3, 2003 03:26 PM

What a waste of american taxpayers money.


Posted by Rob Read at September 3, 2003 06:15 PM

Huh. *I* don't think it's a waste, because I am one of those foolish dreamers who hopes to see, at the very least, working laboratories on other stellar bodies in my lifetime... not in the least because I think the best solution to "overpopulation" is to go upward and outward.


Posted by B. Durbin at September 4, 2003 02:05 AM
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